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I am...: Princess Hijab, born in 1988, is an unseen character. The young artist behind her wishes to remain anonymous. Since 2006, the Princess, who has begun a movement based on the subverting or “hijabizing” of advertisements, veils faces on adverts using a black marker pen. The black hijab encompasses every existing form of distinction. P_H also operates on the Internet by creating animated gifs. She is the founder of the hijab_ad collective, now made up of many other visual and graphic artists. Ultimately, she is known for her subversive work within the public space and for her “diy” and “grrl” attitude. Social networks on the Internet have significantly increased her recognition.
Princess Hijab explores notions of space and possible types of representation, contrasting the normative representations of the public sphere with her personal iconoclastic approach. In 2008, her work was exhibited at the Urban Jealousy exhibit in Turkey organised by Serhat Koksal and Amirali Ghasemi, and will be presented in the next Fake magazine (Spain).

Artists I like: urban space
socialite activism

Interests: space art

The centre of the artworld is: my studio, online

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Allegorical Manifesto:
It is about 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 visuals 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 “ ‘caus 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.

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12/11/2006

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hi, I invite you to vote for Princess Hijab ( x x ) It is an oil canvas made in collaboration with a contemporary artist Federica Gif

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Urban Jealousy biennale curated by Serhat koksal and Amirali Ghasemi. for Wich I 've been selected. http://www.biennialtehran.com/selection.html

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At 2:22pm on 29th October 2008, Violet Water Dragon Productions said…: invitation to join

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At 2:09am on 14th October 2008, io casino said…: thank's for the call !!

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At 3:22pm on 8th September 2008, nicolas said…: bonjour Princesse,

hope you had a good summer !
I invite you to discover my postcards, they are 75 X 100 cm. Lambda prints.

cheers

Nicolas

At 5:19pm on 21st August 2008, john kiloh said…: neat and relevant idea, love it..

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At 2:25pm on 15th July 2008, Anita Hillestad said…: Hello, we are so happy to excibit some of your works!!:-) Nice stuff!!! We keep in touch:-)
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