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Co-creator of .the temple of her skin Jessica Horn was interviewed by Afua Hirsch for a personal peice on Afua’s first tattoo and the inspiration to start her tattoo journey.

“Tattoo practise was framed as demonic and as a result it’s disappeared in most places, says poet and activist Jessica Horn, co-founder of The Temple of Her Skin, a touring exhibition portraying African women’s personal experience of reclaiming ancestral ornamentation. “Across Africa, many in our grandmothers’ generation had tattoos. But in our parents’ generation, tattooing just stopped.”

Read the article in the April 2022 edition of Vogue here.

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the temple of her skin is a visual documentary project exploring the stories and aesthetics around African women and our tattooing and scarification journeys. The series centers on African women in the diaspora and on the African continent- exploring traditional practices and aesthetics, and the largely undocumented world of how and why we inscribe our skin in contemporary tattoo and scarification.

Imagined and co-curated by Jessica Horn and Laurence Sessou

http://thetempleofherskin.com
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