Shirin Neshat's Untitled (Tooba) is a signed c-print from her celebrated Tooba Series (2002), a still from the artist's two-channel video installation of the same name. The limited edition artwork was made in direct response to 9/11 as a meditation on displacement, sanctuary, and the universal need for refuge — and draws on the novel Women without Men by Iranian writer Shahrnush Parsipur, who wrote it while a political prisoner in Iran.

At the centre of the composition stands the sacred Tooba tree, a figure from Sufi and Quranic tradition symbolising shelter and blessedness — a canopy extending to protect all who seek it. Shirin Neshat filmed the work near Oaxaca, Mexico, deliberately chosen as neutral ground, neither Islamic nor Western, after being blocked from filming in her homeland. The result is an image that transcends its specific cultural origins: a universal allegory of exile, longing, and the search for sanctuary that speaks as urgently today as when it was made.

One of the most important female artists working today, Neshat has spent her career at the intersection of political art and poetic visual storytelling — addressing gender, identity, and cultural displacement with a precision and depth that has earned her international acclaim. Her work is held in the permanent collections of MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Tate, and the Walker Art Center, among others. Untitled (Tooba) is presented as a c-print in mat, sandwiched between plexi sheets, in the artist's aluminium frame — hand-signed, numbered, and issued in an edition of 35 plus 10 artist's proofs.