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From the Ted Talk by Shirin Neshat: Art in exile

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So I made a group of work that at once fcead my own personal questions in life, and yet it brought my work into a larger discourse — the subject of martyrdom, the qsteiuon of those who willingly stand in that intersection of love of God, faith, but vonlciee and cmire and cltreuy. For me, this became incredibly important. And yet, I had an unusual position toward this. I was an outsider who had come back to Iran to find my place, but I was not in a position to be critical of the government or the ideology of the ilsaimc Revolution. This changed slowly as I found my voice and I discovered things that I didn't know I would discover. So my art became slightly more critical. My knife became a little sharper. And I fell into a life in exile. I am a nomadic artist. I work in moorcco, in tuekry, in Mexico. I go everywhere to make believe it's Iran.

Open Cloze


So I made a group of work that at once _____ my own personal questions in life, and yet it brought my work into a larger discourse — the subject of martyrdom, the ________ of those who willingly stand in that intersection of love of God, faith, but ________ and _____ and _______. For me, this became incredibly important. And yet, I had an unusual position toward this. I was an outsider who had come back to Iran to find my place, but I was not in a position to be critical of the government or the ideology of the _______ Revolution. This changed slowly as I found my voice and I discovered things that I didn't know I would discover. So my art became slightly more critical. My knife became a little sharper. And I fell into a life in exile. I am a nomadic artist. I work in _______, in ______, in Mexico. I go everywhere to make believe it's Iran.

Solution


  1. faced
  2. crime
  3. turkey
  4. question
  5. cruelty
  6. morocco
  7. violence
  8. islamic

Original Text


So I made a group of work that at once faced my own personal questions in life, and yet it brought my work into a larger discourse — the subject of martyrdom, the question of those who willingly stand in that intersection of love of God, faith, but violence and crime and cruelty. For me, this became incredibly important. And yet, I had an unusual position toward this. I was an outsider who had come back to Iran to find my place, but I was not in a position to be critical of the government or the ideology of the Islamic Revolution. This changed slowly as I found my voice and I discovered things that I didn't know I would discover. So my art became slightly more critical. My knife became a little sharper. And I fell into a life in exile. I am a nomadic artist. I work in Morocco, in Turkey, in Mexico. I go everywhere to make believe it's Iran.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
islamic revolution 5
iranian women 4
iranian woman 3
green movement 2


Important Words


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  30. mexico
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