This work started initially as a critique to Dutch politician Geert Wilder’s separatist future promises and Sarkozy’s burka ban in France. We hid behind the pseudonym Scarf_whiz80, an invented persona who has a secret image collection which glorifies the opacity (versus transparency) and the veil.

Year 2011

Partners Schrank 8 Gallery and Murat Pilevneli

Investor Startstipendium Mondriaan Funds NL Diva Opaque, Anonymous Guardians of Intimacy

Documentation photography Marcus Koppen

Courtesy Mustafa Taviloglu Collection, Istanbul.