"Do U Dare! explores one artist’s gaze upon another,
and the connections that emerge
between them."
Palazzo Marin
Shirin Neshat - Do U Dare!
At Palazzo Marin - until September 6 - Shirin Neshat - new film trilogy - Do You Dare! - curated by - Ilaria Bernardi and Bartolomeo Pietromarchi - explores themes of displacement, isolation, protest, artistic obsession, and the line between creation and self-destruction.
Visual artist and filmmaker - Shirin Neshat
This film trilogy was inspired by the story of Nasim Aghdam, an Iranian Bahá’í woman who fled persecution as a child and grew up isolated in suburban California, suspended between American society and a fading connection to her Iranian heritage. Online, she created stylized videos of song and dance that expressed longing, rage, and protest while critiquing authoritarianism, consumerism, media spectacle, and the objectification of women. After gaining millions of views, YouTube shut down her channel. Devastated by what she perceived as censorship echoing her family's experiences in Iran, Aghdam entered YouTube’s headquarters in 2018, injuring several people before taking her own life.
Shot in three different socioeconomic landscapes in New
York, the three films investigate the paradox between women’s inner and outer worlds, reality and
illusion, and American society and the Iranian female perspective.
Actor - Pegah Ferydoni - Curators - Ilaria Bernardi and Bartolomeo Pietromarchi
Visual artist and filmmaker - Shirin Neshat
