Princess Hijab | |
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 A sample from Princess Hijab's Dolche series | |
| Born | 1988 (age 36–37) |
| Notable work | Diam’s Ma France à Moi |
| Style | Subvertising |
| Movement | Street art |
Princess Hijab (born 1988 [1] ) is an anonymous female [2] street artist working primarily in Paris, France. Her art centres on veiling the main characters of metro advertisements using black paint. [3] [4]
Guerrilla art is innocent and criminal,
ancient and dystopian, intimate and
political. I chose the veil because it
does what art should do: It challenges,
it frightens, and it re-imagines [5]
- Princess Hijab
Princess Hijab is recognized as the founder of "hijabism", a movement based on the "hijabizing" or "hijabization" of advertising images; effectively the painting of veils or hijabs over images of models to make it seem like the model is wearing a veil. [3] As such, she is recognized for her images of veiled girls, boys and courting couples on advertising posters. [6]
One of her works, Diam’s Ma France à Moi, is the portrait of the famous French rapper Diam's, covered with a veil using a black marker pen.
Other works by Princess Hijab include the Lafayette series, depicting a model promoting the French department store Galeries Lafayette, wearing a blue, white and red striped top and a black mask over her mouth, and the Dolche series, a series of Dolce & Gabbana adverts representing male models hijabized by the artist.
Though the artist has rarely appeared in mainstream media, she is featured in the Banksy-produced The Antics Roadshow (the name of which parodies the Antiques Roadshow ). The artist appeared in a bright, feathered, Carnivale-style costume "hijabizing" models in various fashion industry advertisements at Paris metro train stations. The documentary suggested the artist's work was primarily a protest against French Government efforts to ban the burqa in public [2] though the artist herself has denied this. [7]
