The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 7, 2023

Fervor

2000

Shirin Neshat

(American, born in Iran 1957)

America

Gelatin silver print

Unframed: 167.6 x 117.2 cm (66 x 46 1/8 in.); Framed: 176.8 x 127.2 cm (69 5/8 x 50 1/16 in.)

Purchased with funds donated by William and Margaret Lipscomb in celebration of the museum’s centennial 2016.59

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

One woman looks at us, asking if we have the courage to stand up, stand out from the crowd, and be counted.

Description

Shirin Neshat uses photography and video to expose the role of gender in the creation of power structures and social values. During Friday prayers, a vital communal practice in Islam, men and women are required to sit separately, divided by a cloth wall. One woman turns her head to challenge that separation.

Shirin Neshat

American and Iranian video artist and photographer, born 1957
Provenance
Shirin Neshat (the artist) [1957-]
(Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY)
Private Collection
November 18, 2008
(Sotheby's, London, United Kingdom)
2008-2016
Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, Scarsdale, NY
September 6, 2016
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Babaie, Sussan, Rebecca R. Hart, Nancy Princenthal, and Shirin Neshat. Shirin Neshat. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 2013.
Neshat, Shirin, and Giorgio Verzotti. Shirin Neshat: Castello di Rivoli, museo d'arte contemporanea. Milano: Charta, 2002.
Exhibition history

Arts of Iran (Islamic art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 2018-October 28, 2019).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2016.59