Other ways of being - The significance of silence in shirin neshat's <>

Abstract

Th is article off ers an analysis of Shirin Neshat’s fi lm «Women without Men» (2010), devoting special attention to the issue of silence in its narrative. While exploring how the use of silence may represent diverse degrees of oppression, by resorting to Wendy Brown’s and other authors’ theories, it also suggests the ways in which silence may present a form of resistance as well as the embodiment of power, as shown through the fi gure of the garden in Neshat’s fi lm.