letmypeopleshow:

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: 

Covered, 2008, by Anna Shteynshleyger, The image is a self-portrait of the Russia-born, Chicago-based artist, created after her marriage to an observant Jewish man dissolved. As seen from the torso up, she’s wearing nothing but two wigs: one covering her head (as Jewish law requires for married women); the other covering her face.

The picture was intended to comment on the concept of modesty, explains Shteynshleyger, one of three emerging artists showcased in “Perspectives,” at the International Center of Photography. She delights in the way her ear peeks out from between her two head coverings. She calls it “a spiral into infinity.” 

Courtesy ICP/© Anna Shteynshleyger, Collection of Lauren and Mitchell Presser.

 

letmypeopleshow:

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: 

Covered, 2008, by Anna Shteynshleyger, The image is a self-portrait of the Russia-born, Chicago-based artist, created after her marriage to an observant Jewish man dissolved. As seen from the torso up, she’s wearing nothing but two wigs: one covering her head (as Jewish law requires for married women); the other covering her face.

The picture was intended to comment on the concept of modesty, explains Shteynshleyger, one of three emerging artists showcased in “Perspectives,” at the International Center of Photography. She delights in the way her ear peeks out from between her two head coverings. She calls it “a spiral into infinity.” 

Courtesy ICP/© Anna Shteynshleyger, Collection of Lauren and Mitchell Presser.