Shirin Neshat, a courageous dreamer

There is a dreamlike and poetic dimension that pervades Shirin Neshat's works, despite the themes. Her works, full of a critical vision of reality, address issues that concern humanity: power, religion, race and relationships between past and present, East and West. The individual story of Neshat - the artist is of Persian origins - is the starting point of a broader investigation that closely touches the entire world, and for this reason it becomes universal. The tensions between belonging and exile, health and mental distress, dream and reality pour into her works, finding power of expression. The exhibition traces over thirty years of career, through almost two hundred photographic works and a dozen video installations that have become part of the major museum collections in the world, such as those of the Whitney Museum, the MoMA, the Guggenheim in New York and the Tate Modern.