Young Iranians defy tattoo taboo
Tehran, Iran – A face hauntingly peering through a mirror surrounded by black. A woman with a skeleton hand protruding from her mouth. A skull with a colourful knife lodged in it. These are not images you would normally find on display in galleries across Tehran, or anywhere else in Iran. But a group of artists put together a display of those artworks, alongside others, as part of a private gallery dedicated to paintings done by tattoo artists. “We wanted this art show to firstly be a wake-up call for local tattoo artists in order for them to focus more on their art, and to remind them th...
Source: aljazeera.com