Shirin Neshat: “Our House Is on Fire“ (2014)Neshat’s latest series “Our House Is on Fire
Shirin Neshat: “Our House Is on Fire“ (2014)Neshat’s latest series “Our House Is on Fire,” a special commission from the Rauschenberg Foundation, explores the consequences of the recent revolution in Egypt through the eyes the loved ones that were left behind by its martyrs. Recruited on the streets of Cairo, Neshat’s subjects put a face to the mourning that still consumes the city three years after Tahrir Square. “This idea came to me while I was shooting a movie in Egypt. My artist assistant had just loss his daughter,” explains Neshat. “What I saw in him was echoed in the streets, a country inundated by loss and mourning.”Emotional and personal, the work speaks to loss as an inescapable part of the human condition. “When a revolution starts there is something euphoric and contagious about it,” explains the artist. “No one thinks about the human cost and that’s the story I wanted to share, the grief that connects the victims and the victors.” - via WMagazine“Our House Is on Fire” opened on January 30th 2014 in New York at the Rauschenberg Foundation Project Spac.Twenty-three new works will be exhibited at the Rauschenberg Foundation Project space, and two limited-edition prints will be sold through Artspace with proceeds to benefit an independent organization working to strengthen and protect basic rights and freedoms in Egypt.*read more on the project in the artist’s own words via Reuters -- source link
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