A Loss for Words
'A Loss for Words' is the first NFT collection by renowned artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat. Inspired by some of her earliest and most iconic photographs, the works in this series combine video, poetry and computer animation in a meditative gesture of prayer.
- Shirin Neshat
Moonlight
- Shirin Neshat
I Will Greet the Sun Again (Fragment 1)
- Shirin Neshat
I Will Greet the Sun Again (Fragment 2)
- Shirin Neshat
I Pity the Garden (Fragment 1)
- Shirin Neshat
I Pity the Garden (Fragment 2)
- Shirin Neshat
Passenger
- Shirin Neshat
Song of Acquaintance
- Shirin Neshat
Collective Love
- Shirin Neshat
Ungrateful/Blasphemy (Fragment 1)
- Shirin Neshat
Ungrateful/Blasphemy (Fragment 2)
- Shirin Neshat
Moonlight
- Shirin Neshat
I Will Greet the Sun Again (Fragment 1)
- Shirin Neshat
I Will Greet the Sun Again (Fragment 2)
- Shirin Neshat
I Pity the Garden (Fragment 1)
- Shirin Neshat
I Pity the Garden (Fragment 2)
- Shirin Neshat
Passenger
- Shirin Neshat
Song of Acquaintance
- Shirin Neshat
Collective Love
- Shirin Neshat
Ungrateful/Blasphemy (Fragment 1)
- Shirin Neshat
Ungrateful/Blasphemy (Fragment 2)
The Story of A Loss for Words as told by Shirin Neshat
A pair of hands is shown slowly opening in a gesture of prayer, revealing a fragment of Iranian poetry written on the palms in the artist’s own script. No longer contained, the words begin to drift apart and spill gently down the palms, wrists and arms. The hands come back together and the movement repeats in a continuous cycle of revealing and letting go. Contained within “this simple, poetic, yet subversive gesture,” explains Neshat, “is the notion of one’s desire to speak—to express oneself, even if discreetly.”
The collection consists of ten different texts, each selected by the artist from the work of well-known Iranian poets, including Simin Behbahani, Forugh Farrokhzad, Sohrab Sepehri, Ahmad Shamlou and Nima Yushij.
Ten percent of primary sales, as well as three percent of secondary sales on platforms that support creator royalties, will go to The Brooklyn Rail, a nonprofit organization selected by Neshat.
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About the Artist
Shirin Neshat is an Iranian-born artist and filmmaker based in New York. Her photographs, videos and films combine poetic, politically-charged images with narratives questioning issues of power, religion, race and gender as seen through the lens of her personal experiences as an Iranian woman living in exile.