Sind Blossstellung und Striptease dasselbe?
New Art from the Middle East
http://sweet-station.com/blog/2013/02/shirin-fakhims-tehran-prostitutes/
http://www.art-magazin.de/kunst/14921/saatchi_gallery_london
Shirin Fakhim’s Tehran Prostitutes uses absurd and sympathetic humour to address issues surrounding the Persian working-girl circuit. In 2002 it was estimated that there were 100,000 prostitutes working in Tehran, despite Iran’s international reputation as a moralistic country with especially high standards placed on women. Many of these women are driven to prostitution because of abusive domestic situations and the poverty incurred from the massive loss of men during the war; in response to Iran’s strict religious laws, some even consider the profession as an act of civil protest. Fakhim’s sculptures play on the duplicitous perceptions of streetwalkers, highlighting the hypocrisy surrounding the sex industry.