Shirin Neshat is the most famous
Iranian artist in the world, even though she's spent a large part of her
adult life in exile. Her work is both intensely personal and intensely
political, dealing with Iranian identity, Islamic society, and the role
of women in both.
Eleanor Wachtel, host of
Writers
& Company, talks to
Shirin Neshat about
growing up in pre-revolutionary Iran, her work as an artist, and why
it's a deep expression of her own conflicted relationship with her
homeland.