Paintings of Uncomfortable Shame

Panni Malekzadeh’s paintings of young girls juxtaposed with sex store neon signage deal with human vulnerability, boredom, fragility and the imprisonment of oneself. Her work has always been about things in herself that she felt incredibly uncomfortable and embarrassed by. Suggesting ideas of beauty vs. despair, shame, embarrassment and vulnerability that woman many times experience in their lives, Malekzadeh exploits what’s dangerous and what scares her about herself.

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Driverless Car Experiment

Spanish drivers were treated to an amusing sight at the weekend – a truck electronically towing a chain of cars behind it.

What they were witnessing was the first real-world test of ”platooning” technology, which places a vehicle at the head of a convoy, with a string of automatically driving cars trailing behind it. –CONTINUED