"The reduction of individual psychology to its essence and its pairing with emotionality and formal contrast is not always comprehensible to the Western art scene. We are used to contemporary art being composed in codes that we know how to break thanks to our knowledge of art history. Shirin Neshat overrides these codes when she falls back on her Persian culture of nuances, political incorrectness, when she contradicts Western feminism and shows a wonderfully aesthetic inaccuracy, which despite its political theme dares to indulge in beauty."
68 pp, b/w figures, hb, in Turkish-English bilingual.