Shirin Neshat's powerful and meaningful film was presented at the Chicago Art Institute. It was an installation of two synchronized black and white video sequences projected on large screens on opposite facing walls. In "Rapture," Neshat articulates the ways in which space and spatial boundaries are politicized in Islam. The men populate a stone fortress on one side of the room all wearing black pants and white shirts, and on the other wall the women move in a barren dessert wearing black full-length veils. The message by Neshat is that "both men and women are contained and controlled by a fortress mentality - women behind the veil, men behind the wall." The film was accompanied by music by Sussan Deyhim, blending Middle Eastern and North African folk traditions with contemporary sources using lyrics, abstract primal utterances, natural ambient sounds, electronic noise and percussion. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In addition to an incisive critical essay, this catalogue also includes an interview with Shirin Neshat and reproductions from the video trilogy Turbulent, Rapture and Fervor. Further, several visual poetic photographic prints from the Women of Allah series are reproduced. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The catalogue includes descriptive texts and illustrations for Neshat's following videos: Turbulent, Rapture, Fervor, Soliloquy, Passage and Pulse. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The image of this print consists to two arms, one wrapped in a Jewish religious ornament known as tfellin, the other with a Farsi text. Fuchs printed this work. The image was was reproduced in the November 2009 issue of Art in America page 121. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.