Corps étranger (Foreign Body) can be interpreted as exploring themes of vulnerability, the fragility of the physical self, and the feeling of alienation or being a stranger within one's own body. This can be linked to experiences of trauma where one…
Neshat sits in front of the camera in a black chador (Islamic veil that leaves only the face exposed), with the barrel of a gun directly splitting her face into two sides; her exposed face, apart from the eye area, is overlayed with Farsi text from a…
This work of art is a sculpture made of mannequins that represents a plate from Francisco Goya's The Disasters of War in three dimensional life size. The mannequins are dismembered and hanging from a tree.