Dr Lakra

'Dr Lakra modifies readymade images by intricately drawing over them. Dr Lakra is a practicing tattoo artist from Mexico, who gave permanent tattoos to visitors at the 2004 Basel Art Fair. Turning his skin technique to pictures of 1950's pin up girls,he covers them with a complex network of sexual and often degrading tattoos and graffiti, which include imaginary and Mexican slang. Their inscription on these half naked women might read as a second textual layer of male desire inscribed over the first' - Martyn Hill

Dr Lakra, paint on vintage magazine