Photography each 30 x 40 cm

Unter Zuhilfenahme von Reproduktionen historischer persischer Miniaturmalerei wurden die dort dargestellten weiblichen Figuren mit einem Tschador versehen.

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.
Female figures shown on reproductions of historical Persian miniature paintings were provided with a tchador.