From ekosystem.org:
BR1: I am working and studying on the figure of the Muslim woman since two year: history, tradition, legal sources and development in contemporary society. A complete research on the theme. In Turin when people ask me why I draw this type of subject I tell them that it isn’t a case, but I study the theme.
As a lot of artists, I started my career interpreting typical subject of our world: USA power, corporation as mcDonalds, the clash with eastern world, pollution. I was looking for images on magazines to take inspiration or making some collages, and my attention fell always on images with a woman wearing the veil. For me it is charm. A woman wearing it has another allure or behaviour. And you know, for many people the veil is a sort of taboo or a cryptic theme, but it captured my attention, because I am a curious person.
Some years ago I understood that I don’t like to express my creativity on topics like USA, oil, wars, poverty in Africa, even if they are themes that I follow and I read books about them. Since I start drawing, when I was young, I made draw of human beings. I love figurative drawings. But I feel that I was not interested on the western woman, because I want to try to use art to describe a typical phenomenon or a sociological theme, as David Gouny make with the figure of fat women in his posters or FKDL with woman silhouettes, you know?! So, drawing Muslim women has been a process.
But I am from Italy; I am secularized and I have a big respect for other people in general. I think that today is a risk to introduce religious elements on my poster, because I don’t completely know Islam, I am not Islamic, and I am not interested in religious. This is the point: why a dress has so strong connotation of religion? This thing attracts me.
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