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Shirin Neshat
Sayed, from the series Our House is on Fire
2013
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Artist
Shirin Neshat
(Iranian, b. 1957)
- Title Sayed, from the series Our House is on Fire
- Date 2013
- Medium Digital pigment print
- Edition description 9/50
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Dimensions
image | 23 15/16 x 15 9/16 in.
sheet | 25 1/1 x 17 9/16 in.
- Credit line Gift of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, 2016
- Object number WU 2016.0001.0002
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Technique
digital printing
pigment processes
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Work type
photograph
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Theme
Exile, Migration, and Displacement
Poetry and Writing
Emotions and Affect
1/7/2016 (date received)
Christy MacLear, Executive Director
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