Screening Session "Shirin Neshat"
14 September 2026 · 19:30
Gran Teatre del Liceu, el Raval, Ciutat Vella
Photography occupies a central place in her career, particularly in now-emblematic series such as Women of Allah, in which the superimposition of the female body, Persian writing and symbols of resistance generates an iconography that is as beautiful as it is unsettling. Neshat uses black and white with almost liturgical precision and turns the image into a space of silence charged with meaning, where the viewer's gaze is addressed directly and uncomfortably. The body, often frontal and hieratic, is never passive: it is a territory of dispute, an archive of memory and a surface for ideological projection. Beyond explicit denunciation, her work is characterised by profound poetic ambiguity. Neshat avoids a single, unambiguous narrative and constructs images that inhabit the boundary between intimacy and collective discourse, between tradition and modernity, between the individual voice and the chorus of a shared experience. This constant tension gives her work a universal power that transcends the specific context of Iran to speak about displacement, uprooting and identity in a fragmented world. In parallel with the production of Verdi's Aida, which can be enjoyed on stage, some of…
Source: Ajuntament de Barcelona · checked on 8 September 2026