Shurch Phone Grretings

The artist has designed for the Hall of Cariatidi a sort of long ribbon of 15 screens in a continuous stream from which unfold lights and moving images that, with music by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Sussan Deyhim, depict the life of Zarin, Faezeh, Farokh Alloys, Munis and Mahdokht (the names so each of the anchors of the series titled Women Without Men).

Contemporary art back in the Caryatid Room at the Royal Palace with "Women Without Men" by Shirin Neshat , an exclusive Iranian installation artist, on display until March 6, 2011.

A monumental work in which the artist worked from 2004 to 2008, based on the novel of the Iranian writer Shahnush Parsipur, published in 1989 and banned in Iran. The novel is set in 1953, at the time of the coup was backed by American and British armies to depose the democratically elected president, Mohammad Mossadegh, and to return the Shah to power, thus avoiding the nationalization of the oil wells.

In Caryatid Room a 'multimedia installation that introduces a new form in the material that inspired the making of the film of the same name, premiered in Venice. Through the use of a long ribbon of 15 screens distributed in the space of the room, the five installations live together in a continuous stream and sync images, sound, light and poetry. Visitors can follow their own path in the grand hall, leaving the excitement of the stories involve Zarin, Faezeh, Farokh Alloys, Munis and Mahdokht (the names so each of the anchors of the series titled Women Without Men), it being subdued by the music of Ryuichi Sakamoto and Sussan Deyhim, and the beauty each frame of video installations, though they were a perfect series of photographs in which every character, every object, the landscape itself contribute to coalesce into a harmony of great power.