What do we know about Shirin Neshat

Shoja’s short film/video installation King Of Black was exhibited at 55th Venice Art Biennale (2013.) King Of Black is one segment of seven part romantic epic poem by the 12th century poet Nezami Ganjav. Shoja has been commissioned to complete the epic poem as a feature film made up of seven video installations by the year 2018. In The Last Word the woman suffers in silence the prolonged threats of her interrogator but then responds in a way that dumbfounds him. She speaks a poem, written by Forough Farrokhzad, the poet who died in a car accident in 1967 and whose writing and lifestyle had been condemned.