Shirin’s work centres on opposites religous/secular, East/West, masculine/feminine.
She does not consider herself as an activist but sees her art *as an expression of protest, a cry for humanity
When the Iran Revolution erupted in 1979 she was in the USA she wondered if she would ever see her family again.
In 1990 she was reunited with her family in a very different Iran from the one she had left . It inspired her first major work Women of Allah which featured photographs of veiled women with overlaid text.
It attracted global attention. It felt hear was someone who could describe what it was like to be an Iranian woman.
Her art is too threatening for the Iranian Authorities so she has been in exile since 1996.
Her art is a weapon on 2 fronts - against the Iran regime and the unreal perceptions of Iran held by the West.
Sources
Wikipedia
RISE: Extraordinary Women of Colour Who Changed the World
by Maliha Abidi
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