Lot 122: Miss Hybrid # 4

Shirin Aliabadi (Iranian, b. 1973)
Miss Hybrid # 4
signed and dated (on a label on the reverse)
inkjet mounted on aluminium
59 x 47¼in. (150 x 120cm.)
Executed in 2007, this work is number five from an edition of five plus two artist proofs

The Miss Hybrid series is a humourous take on the appeareance of the fashionable girls in Tehran. With their blonde hair, blue contact lenses and tell-tale surgical tape on their noses- clearly showing they have had cosmetic surgery, the girls in these images subvert preconceptions about the chador, demonstrating the freedom Iranian women exercise within their confines.