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Beautiful woman wrapped in chadors, with huge machine guns in their hands. Brilliant, shocking, amazingly contradictory images. They compelled me to deeply investigate these ideas.
Shirin Neshat
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Shirin Neshat
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 26
Film Director
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Screenwriter
Video Artist
Visual Artist
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Beautiful
Machine
Hands
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Amazingly
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Investigate
Deeply
Wrapped
Brilliant
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Guns
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