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Depuis 2006, Princesse Hijab officie comme artiste de guérilla dans l’espace public. Se déplacent dans Paris la nuit pour couvrir les panneaux publicitaires avec le voile. Symbole qui suscite de vifs débats sur le fondamentalisme religieux et la liberté culturelle et l’oppression. Cette jeune artiste se livre à un “djihad artistique” dont elle serait le chef…

Photo by Kai Jünemann for Spiegel

Since 2006, Princesse Hijab officiates as guerrilla artist in public space. Moving to Paris at night to cover the billboards with the veil. This symbol, which is the occasion for fierce debates about religious fundamentalism and cultural freedom and oppression. This young artist is engaged in a “jihad artistic” it would be the chief …

Princess Hijab Manifesto – This is the story of a young woman fighting every day for a noble cause: she wants to “hijabize” advertising. Princess Hijab knows that L’Oréal and Dark&Lovely have been killing her little by little. She feels that the veil is no longer that white. She feels contaminated. When she was a teen, she heard about movements such as Adbuster; but since 9/11, things have changed. She does not subvert images in an American way. Princess Hijab will go on, veiled and alone, forever asserting her physical and mental integrity. By day, she wears a white veil, symbol of purity. By night, her black veil is the expression of her vengeful fight for a cause (custom ad). With her spray paint and black marker pen, she is out to hijabize advertising. Even Kate Moss is targeted. She knows all about visual terrorism! And she will not spare her right of expression for the likes of publicists. Make sure that all advertising can be hijabized “ ‘cause that’s her fight Jihad is her art”. And don’t forget, she acts upon her own free will. She is not involved in any lobby or movement be it political, religious or to do with advertising. In fact, the Princess is an insomniac-punk. She is the leader of an artistic fight, nothing else.

Vous pouvez visiter son MySpace pour voir ses derniers travaux (un apperçu ci-dessous)/You can visit her MySpace to see his latest work (a preview below)