SHIRIN NESHAT (B. 1957)
I am its Secret (from Women of Allah series)
signed, titled and dated 'Shirin Neshat "I am its Secret" 1993' (on the reverse)
chromogenic print
image: 19¹⁄₂ x 13¹⁄₄in. (49.4 x 33.5cm.)
Executed in 1993, this work is number thirty-four from an edition of two hundred and fifty

Meridian Fine Art, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2000.

A. Danto and M. Abramović, Shirin Neshat, New York 2010, p. 256 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 25; detail illustrated, pp. 40-41).
H. Ventura, Shirin Neshat: Frauen in Gesellschaft, Berlin 2017, p. 37 (another from the edition illustrated in colour).

Vancouver, Artspeak Gallery, Shirin Neshat: Women of Allah, 1997, pp. 15-16 and 27 (another from the edition exhibited; another from the editionillustrated in colour on the front cover and p.17).
Oslo, Tromsø kunstforening, Shirin, 1999, p. 71 (another from the edition exhibited; another from the edition illustrated in colour on the front cover and p. 10). This exhibition later travelled to Høvikodden, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter; Bergen, Bergen kunstforening and Stockholm, Tensta Konsthall.
Washington, Hirshhorn Museum, Shirin Neshat: Facing History, 2015, pp. 76 and 235 (another version illustrated in colour, p. 77).
Los Angeles, The Broad, Shirin Neshat: I Will Greet the Sun Again, 2019-2020, p. 232 (another version illustrated in colour, p. 39).

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