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Downtown - limited edition Tink (temporary tattoo) by YZ

Price £32.50

From the first collection of the Tink-it range by contemporary artists, exclusively available in the UK at ShopCurious, this boxed set of temporary tattoos by YZ contains 2 boards (10 x 15 cm) and a total of 2 tattoos. This is one of a limited edition of individually numbered sets, up to a maximum of 500 by this artist (one of only five French artists contributing to the first collection). It takes about a minute to read the instructions and apply the tattoo and another minute to dry. Each tattoo lasts for around one to three days and can be easily removed using alcohol, or a make-up remover saturated cotton wool pad.

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Let your body be an ephemeral part of a global work of art. Take photos, save your artwork and the history of your body’s life for posterity. And here is what it says about the designer on the Tink:

" I get lost. I get lost in the city, in the streets, in the alleyways. I take a picture of a door, a wall, a building. When I go home, I paint, I tear up and I go back to the street with a craft paper roll.  Downtown  is a piece of a city that I found somewhere and I pasted farther away. It’s a piece of life, a piece of paper which just needs to be hung somewhere to come alive again. Turned into a Tink,  Downtown  places on a moving body an urban and static universe. It is a gateway to outside, elsewhere and others. "

"Born in 1975, YZ is an artist who has managed to set her style in urban space. In 2003, she became famous through the creation of a dark and enigmatic face (Open Your Eyes) that quickly came to dominate walls in Paris, Berlin, New York, Bamako or Hong-Kong. Represented by Galerie Bailly Contemporain, she was recently part of the exhibition 'Né dans la Rue – Graffiti' at Fondation Cartier. If she has focused her artistic approach on portraits so far, her new project Downtown  celebrates city’s walls, moved and revived somewhere else. "

Susan x

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