My Body My Rights: Tokyo-based artist joins campaign with “hyperreal” body paintings

Headline Title: Tokyo-based artist joins campaign with “hyperreal” body paintings 06 March 2014 The images are striking. A woman holds the key to her own body; another woman’s wrist disappears, gives way to a blister pack of contraceptive pills; a pile of books are embedded in a man’s back. These are some of the illustrations painted on real bodies by Tokyo-based artist Hikaru Cho to kick-start “My Body My Rights”, Amnesty International’s new global campaign on sexual and reproductive rights. Hikaru Cho designed each "hyperreal" painting specifically to represent a human right denied…

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