id: 289550 accession number: 2016.59 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2016.59 updated: 2022-01-04 18:05:21.427000 Fervor, 2000. Shirin Neshat (American, born in Iran 1957). Gelatin silver print; unframed: 167.6 x 117.2 cm (66 x 46 1/8 in.); framed: 176.8 x 127.2 cm (69 5/8 x 50 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchased with funds donated by William and Margaret Lipscomb in celebration of the museum’s centennial 2016.59 title: Fervor title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 2000 creation date earliest: 2000 creation date latest: 2000 current location: creditline: Purchased with funds donated by William and Margaret Lipscomb in celebration of the museum’s centennial copyright: --- culture: America technique: gelatin silver print department: Photography collection: PH - Misc. 20th Century type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Shirin Neshat (American, born in Iran 1957) - artist American and Iranian video artist and photographer, born 1957 --- measurements: Unframed: 167.6 x 117.2 cm (66 x 46 1/8 in.); Framed: 176.8 x 127.2 cm (69 5/8 x 50 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Arts of Iran (Islamic art rotation) opening date: 2018-10-30T04:00:00 Arts of Iran (Islamic art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 2018-October 28, 2019). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Shirin Neshat (the artist) [1957-] date: footnotes: citations: (Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY) date: footnotes: citations: Private Collection date: footnotes: citations: (Sotheby's, London, United Kingdom) date: November 18, 2008 footnotes: citations: Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, Scarsdale, NY date: 2008-2016 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: September 6, 2016 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: One woman looks at us, asking if we have the courage to stand up, stand out from the crowd, and be counted. digital description: Shirin Neshat uses photography and video to expose the role of gender in the creation of power structures and social values. During Friday prayers, a vital communal practice in Islam, men and women are required to sit separately, divided by a cloth wall. One woman turns her head to challenge that separation. wall description: Shirin Neshat uses photography and video to expose and challenge the role of gender in the creation of power structures and social values. Fervor is the third in a series of video installations exploring social binaries, beginning with Turbulent (1998) and Rapture (1999). It was inspired in part by Friday prayers, a vital communal practice in Islam where men and women are required to sit separately. In this still from the video, one woman and one man turn their heads toward the curtain that separates them, as if to acknowledge the other’s presence, even though they cannot see each other. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Babaie, Sussan, Rebecca R. Hart, Nancy Princenthal, and Shirin Neshat. Shirin Neshat. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 2013. page number: url: Neshat, Shirin, and Giorgio Verzotti. Shirin Neshat: Castello di Rivoli, museo d'arte contemporanea. Milano: Charta, 2002. page number: url: --- IMAGES