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 have always been irresistibly drawn by tattoos. Not so much the one praised as a piece of art and made in tattoo parlours but more the one spotted on a naked forearm, on a hand or between one's thumb and forefinger. The one that we try to hide ; blue, grey or black and always runny. The inked-yourself one, or by someone else, with a needle and some Chinese ink… It is shaky, stained and clumsy. Made in the euphoria of a night, forever telling a story, sometimes none for there is none to tell, but as years go by it becomes this « error » that one has to live with. Nevertheless, it remains furiously aesthetic, a true raw art work. My Tink groups pleb tattoos. A dog, an eagle or a skull, simple elements not to say simplistic that others inked, for real. A decal to ornate an arm or leg, to claim nothing, just for fun, as a true tattoo amateur."

"In each of his interventions, Olivier Kosta-Théfaine plays with the codes and clichés of popular culture. Proud of his suburban roots (Sartrouville, near Paris) he uses local codes, twisting their original meaning to feed them to a broader public. Irony leads his work. Be it in his paintings « This is a low-budget artwork » he only tags this sentence on canvas, repeatedly. Or in his rose-window inspired designs traced on ceilings with a lighter, combining posh culture and popular techniques. These burnt frescoes made their way to the ceilings of A.L.I.C.E. gallery (Brussels) and Fondation Cartier (Paris) for the exhibition « Né dans la rue » (« Born on the street »). His reflection is essentially based on rehabilitating the, often discredited, elements that belong to this urban world hi constantly mingles with. He asserts his pride of belonging to the concrete, ever on the edge between glam and pop."

Susan x