{"id":12307,"date":"2009-03-18T08:27:32","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T08:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emst.gr\/?p=12307"},"modified":"2021-08-26T10:40:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T10:40:32","slug":"shirin-neshat-women-without-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/exhibitions-en\/shirin-neshat-women-without-men","title":{"rendered":"Shirin Neshat &#8211; Women without Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new monumental circle of work of Shirin Neshat, titled <em>Women without Men<\/em>, was created between 2004-2008 and is constituted from 5 videos-sound installations. Shirin Neshat\u2019s new series of works is based on Shahrnush Parsipur\u2019s novel, which is banned in Iran since 1989. The five video installations (<em>Mahdokht, Zarin, Munis, Faezeh<\/em> and <em>Farokh Legha<\/em>) tell the stories of the five female characters in the novel. The total duration of the films is c. 1 hour 15 minutes. The novel is set in 1953, the year when the democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, vainly tried to avert a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat mounted by American and British forces, whose task it was to reinstate the Shah as an absolute ruler in order to avoid the nationalisation of the country\u2019s oil resources.<\/p>\n<p>In her films, Shirin Neshat retains the magic realism of the novel and allows magic and the supernatural to interact with the realistic story. On the other hand, she deals freely with the novel\u2019s action as she focuses on mood and tone in her work rather than seeking to create a straightforward film version of the novel. It is the five main female characters &#8211; Mahdokht, Zarin, Munis, Faezeh and Farokh Legha &#8211; that Shirin Neshat portrays in a gripping drama about power and powerlessness. The women confront the lives they have lived hitherto in different ways and seek to escape from the city to a garden, where they for a time find a refuge. For these women, life is a struggle for freedom and survival in a society that lays down strict rules regarding religion, sex and social behaviour. For Shirin Neshat, the coincidence in time between the Iranian people\u2019s attempt to achieve democracy and independence and the women\u2019s fight for survival \u2013 through madness, flight, active opposition or conformity \u2013 has been the driving force in the creation of her new, fascinating and unforgettable work, <em>Women without men. <\/em>The monumental series <em>Women without Men<\/em> will be completed by a feature film screening in film theatres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new monumental circle of work of Shirin Neshat, titled Women without Men, was created between 2004-2008 and is constituted from 5 videos-sound installations. Shirin Neshat\u2019s new series of works is based on Shahrnush Parsipur\u2019s novel, which is banned in Iran since 1989. The five video installations (Mahdokht, Zarin, Munis, Faezeh and Farokh Legha) tell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":75566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-exhibition-post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,34],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12307"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76450,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12307\/revisions\/76450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}