September 2010
WatchThis short documentary follows the anonymous Parisian graffiti artist as she draws burqas onto advertisements in Paris. The artist has become especially well known in the street art world and her work is very controversial, especially after the burqa ban that the French government just passed.
Her work raises the question of why hiding behind a burqa is more oppressive than hiding behind the...
“Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to...”
– W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge, 1943
