Project details
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ARTPLACES
Do U Dare!
Milan 17 May – 25 July
Do U Dare! is a provocative new exhibition by artist Shirin Neshat, blending a haunting video installation and striking photographic works to interrogate the commodification of identity, the rise of authoritarianism, and the fragile line between self and spectacle.
At the core of the exhibition lies Neshat’s immersive video installation, Do U Dare!. The film follows Nasim, a young Iranian woman as she wanders through the heart of New York City’s immigrant enclaves. Amid the cacophony of rushing trains and weary gazes of strangers, Nasim is drawn into a labyrinth of layered realities. Monitors plastered with the image of a suited politician—an omnipresent media figure—loom over her journey, culminating in a town square where Nasim encounters the man in person delivering hollow rhetoric to a crowd of vacant-faced immigrants. Nasim watches in disbelief.
