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Two digital pigment prints depicting portraits of Ghada and Sayed, with each a close up of subject’s face, presented in Shirin Neshat’s signature black-and-white photographic style, with a very dark background.

Shirin Neshat (Iranian, b. 1957), Ghada and Sayed, from the series Our House is on Fire, 2013. Digital pigment prints, 23 15/16 x 15 9/16 in. each. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis. Gifts of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, 2016.

Kemper Interlude: Calligraphies of Grief

Explore the Museum galleries while listening to interwoven layers of music and poetry composed by Saraswati Majumdar, MFA student in Poetry, and inspired by the artworks Ghada and Sayed, both from the series Our House is on Fire by artist Shirin Neshat.

Date and time

December 4, 2026, 12:00 – 1:30pm

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Kemper Art Museum

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