Movie Details
Original Language:English
Movie Tags:
woman director
Rapture
Audience Score
9 min
The installation features two blackandwhite projections One depicts a group of men dressed in Western suits and the other captures a group of women veiled in chador In the work Neshat takes on entrenched gender stereotypes by placing the men in a structured architectural fortress and the women in a wild natural desert The viewer is positioned between these dichotomies with the videos displayed on opposite walls and is forced to shift attention from one to the other The installation shows how established beliefs and presumptions can flourish in social and religious systems emphasizing that these deeprooted dynamics profoundly impact all people indiscriminate of gender
DirectorShirin Neshat
