Tattoo Removal: Stealth Identity or Corporal Vivacity?
Tattoo removal could be understood as an erasure: erasing one’s past could be the way to start from scratch, to find an original skin and to give new meaning to one’s skin. If salt has been used unsuccessfully, new techniques are subject to evaluation and evolution. But the erasure techniques are so invasive and their sequelae so important that tattoo removal appears as a form of disengagement which is both assumed and risky: from the point of view of the state of the torn skin, which never recovers the state of blank canvas on which one could rewrite immediately, as well as from a physiological perspective which would like to renew the skin’s age. We demonstrate that there is not an arrangement with the skin but an “agenrement” to operate to give back a style and a type to a body discredited by what would now be a defect to eliminate.