Lot 82: Shirin Aliabadi (Iranian, b. 1973)

Shirin Aliabadi (Iranian, b. 1973)
Miss Hybrid #3
inkjet print in plexiglass
50 x 44in. (150 x 114cm.)
Executed in 2007, this is artist proof one 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.