Description
This series of artworks by Imrana Tanveer represent ‘virgins’ who are promised to the faithful and righteous men and to martyrs in Islam. The visuals are ironically appropriations of the famous paintings of beautiful women from Baroque and mostly Rococo period including the maids, queen, princess and muses alike. Heaven or Earth, the objectification of the woman seems to always prevail. Tanveer deliberately obliterates the faces and bodies of the painted women, making them faceless and anonymous objects.
