Representations of Veiling in the Visual Culture of Iran’s Islamic Republic: On Shirin Neshat’s and Jafar Panahi’s Filmic Works
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This article explores multifaceted associations between gender politics and veiling in Post-revolutionary Iran. It centers on how contemporary Iranian visual art explores the ambivalence of hijab and its significance operated in various dichotomies, such as the public/the private, the feminine/the masculine, and the visible/the invisible. To address the social, political, and psychological dimensions of women’s experiences in contemporary Iran based on gender- segregation rules in the revolutionary government’s nation-building strategies, I attend to the spatial metaphor of hijab and its transgendered appropriation in the films of Shirin Neshat and Jafar Panahi. I begin with reading Neshat’s two-channel video installations which invite viewers to witness the tensions between the genders through multi-sensory encounters with veiled women in public spaces. Then, I analyze Panahi’s Offside (2006), a film about Iranian girls whose masculine veils empower them to enter the male-only public arena. Through these case studies, this article argues that the visualization of veiling underscores the ambivalence about the nation-state mode of Islam and the vulnerability of ‘Iranianness’ reliant on the revolutionary regime’s gender policy.
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This article explores multifaceted associations between gender politics and veiling in Post-revolutionary Iran. It centers on how contemporary Iranian visual art explores the ambivalence of hijab and its significance operated in various dichotomies, such as the public/the private, the feminine/the masculine, and the visible/the invisible. To address the social, political, and psychological dimensions of women’s experiences in contemporary Iran based on gender- segregation rules in the revolutionary government’s nation-building strategies, I attend to the spatial metaphor of hijab and its transgendered appropriation in the films of Shirin Neshat and Jafar Panahi. I begin with reading Neshat’s two-channel video installations which invite viewers to witness the tensions between the genders through multi-sensory encounters with veiled women in public spaces. Then, I analyze Panahi’s Offside (2006), a film about Iranian girls whose masculine veils empower them to enter the male-only public arena. Through these case studies, this article argues that the visualization of veiling underscores the ambivalence about the nation-state mode of Islam and the vulnerability of ‘Iranianness’ reliant on the revolutionary regime’s gender policy.
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