The zine consist of images of tattoos and the original stencil (reproduction of an image appropriated from the internet) printed on transparent paper. The zine looks at the process and transformation of the image to the skin in a materialized form.

Maria Koskivirta (b. 1999) is Prague/Helsinki based interdisciplinary artist with an emphasis on the audiovisual medium. Her practice focuses on the spectacular and illusionary aspects of a society and the structures that are built to deceive us; the presumed condition of postmodern society and it’s refusal of depth. In her work she is especially interested to examine the condition of images in the current age of vernacular photography; transformations in subjectivity and how these social images work in the landscape of (post)digital art by presententing them in their social, conditional form.With blending fact and fiction she interrogates the hyperreal qualities of our society. Also integrating the body and some aspects of low-resolution images through the mediation of reprodutions that she uses in her work as a tattoo artist she is questioning authorship of images in the age of virtual circulation.