APOLLO INTERVIEW: ‘It was a challenge, but I have grown from it’ – Shirin Neshat on her latest work

23 İyn 15

Iranian-American artist Shirin Neshat launched YARAT’s new space in Baku this spring with a new photography commission, The Home of My Eyes. Now, back across the Atlantic, she is the subject of the Hirshhorn Museum’s ‘Facing History’, which draws out social and political pivots from her best-known work. She spoke with me from her New York studio about fictionalising reality, never feeling accomplished, and travelling between the media of still photography, video art, and feature-length film.

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