Das kleine Schwarze
© Shahram Entekhabi 2003-05
series of 10 poster 180 x 120 cm
acrylics and permanent marker on fashion advertisement
Since 2001, Shahram Entekhabi covers all female heads
and bodies in fashion magazines, on Persian miniatures, postcards or in
advertisements with the black veil to sensitise the Western viewer to
the practical use of the tchador as an ominipresent element of the every-day
in his home-country Iran. Ironically, he refers at the same time to the
common practice during the time of the Islamic revolution in Iran when
the religious leaders censored books and magazines through covering images
of female bodies. |