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East Meets West
by Jennifer Dalton


*A Dream of Those Who Swim and Fly* by Elena Gorina

Iranian-born artist Shirin Neshat creates photographs and films that comment on the situation of women in Islamic society in a subtle and fascinating way.

Neshat's "Rapture" is an epic installation of two elaborately staged films, each projected large-scale on the wall.


*Symbolic Women Images* by GG Kopilack

In one projection, dozens of men in white shirts work together on various menial tasks and routines, high atop a fortress wall. In the companion film projected simultaneously, dozens of women in black head-to-toe veils move together in the desert and on the beach below the fortress. Alternately, the groups of men and women watch and react to each other.


*Tyranny of the Modern* by Peter Illig

Beautiful, multi-layered and open-ended, "Rapture" is less a political statement than a poetic allegory, less a call to action than a reminder to reflect.


*My Body* by Roxa Smith

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