Tag: Sheida Soleimani

Uncanny

Louise Bourgeois, Sheida Soleimani and Gillian Wearing are among the 30 female artists contributing to a show that is challenging, unsettling and sometimes downright uncomfortable
Sheida Soleimani: ‘Does someone really want to buy an image of an executed woman and hang it in their home?’

Surrounded by her neon memorials to women killed in Iran, Soleimani discusses the state-sanctioned misogyny and human rights abuses there, and how she is trying to make people in the west aware of what is going on