id:			289550
accession number:	2016.59
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2016.59
updated:		2022-09-10 12:01:00.654000

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
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creation date:			2000
creation date earliest:		2000
creation date latest:		2000
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creditline:			Purchased with funds donated by William and Margaret Lipscomb in celebration of the museum’s centennial
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culture:	America
technique:	gelatin silver print
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - Misc. 20th Century
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Shirin Neshat (American, born in Iran 1957)  - artist
American and Iranian video artist and photographer, born 1957
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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.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Arts of Iran (Islamic art rotation)
	opening date:   2018-10-30T04:00:00
	<i>Arts of Iran (Islamic art rotation)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 2018-October 28, 2019).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Shirin Neshat (the artist) [1957-]
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	(Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY)
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	Private Collection
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	(Sotheby's, London, United Kingdom)
	date: November 18, 2008
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	Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, Scarsdale, NY
	date: 2008-2016
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: September 6, 2016
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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.

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Shirin Neshat uses photography and video to expose and challenge the role of gender in the creation of power structures and social values. <em>Fervor </em>is the third in a series of video installations exploring social binaries, beginning with <em>Turbulent </em>(1998) and <em>Rapture </em>(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.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Babaie, Sussan, Rebecca R. Hart, Nancy Princenthal, and Shirin Neshat. Shirin Neshat. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 2013.
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	Neshat, Shirin, and Giorgio Verzotti. Shirin Neshat: Castello di Rivoli, museo d'arte contemporanea. Milano: Charta, 2002.
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