Shirin NESHAT Iranian, b. 1957
I am its Secret (from Women of Allah series), 1993
Chromogenic print
49.4 x 33.5 cm
Edition 34 of 250
Further images
Provenance
Meridian Fine Art, New York.Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2000.
Exhibitions
The Resistance of Pen & Paper, Richard Saltoun Gallery London, 2023Vancouver, Artspeak Gallery, Shirin Neshat: Women of Allah, 1997, pp. 15-16 and 27 (another from the edition exhibited; another from the editionillustrated in colour on the front cover and p.17).
Oslo, Tromsø kunstforening, Shirin, 1999, p. 71 (another from the edition exhibited; another from the edition illustrated in colour on the front cover and p. 10). This exhibition later travelled to Høvikodden, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter; Bergen, Bergen kunstforening and Stockholm, Tensta Konsthall.
Washington, Hirshhorn Museum, Shirin Neshat: Facing History, 2015, pp. 76 and 235 (another version illustrated in colour, p. 77).
Los Angeles, The Broad, Shirin Neshat: I Will Greet the Sun Again, 2019-2020, p. 232 (another version illustrated in colour, p. 39).
Literature
A. Danto and M. Abramović, Shirin Neshat, New York 2010, p. 256 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 25; detail illustrated, pp. 40-41).H. Ventura, Shirin Neshat: Frauen in Gesellschaft, Berlin 2017, p. 37 (another from the edition illustrated in colour).