No Boundaries: Gay Kuwaiti Artist Tareq Sayed Rajab de Montfort

THE HAARETZ
By Eyal Sagui Bizawe

"Homage to The Forgotten Queens of Islam" from Tareq de Montfort's exhibit. Photo by courtesy

FRANCE---He already has Koran verses tattooed on his body and plans to add the Jewish and Muslim names of God. Meet Islamic avant-garde artist Tareq Sayed Rajab de Montfort. Tareq Sayed Rajab de Montfort , a young, openly gay Kuwaiti-born artist, whose one-man exhibition, “The Arab Unbound,” was shown in London in February and is now showing at “The Window” in Paris. De Montfort’s work deals with Arab identity, with an emphasis on the grace of men and the strength of women, together with the various components of his own identity: Arabness, Islam, masculinity, homosexuality, queerness, femininity and even his socioeconomic status. [link]