My work exists in the field of objects, installation and jewellery. I ask questions about human nature, about the process of life. I raise questions about the value of the individual and the individual’s values. I use human hair to translate these questions into a material.
Hair- a material that leaves nobody unaffected.
Valuable- when it is in the right place on the body. Shameful- when it is in the wrong place on the body. Repulsive - when it is detached from the body.
I challenge these declarations by using hair that I collected from dozens of individuals (mostly women) for my work. I convert the hair, combine it with “precious” materials, put it into a new context and revalue it. In my work, the hair receives an independent identity. I make the apparently repulsive material to be the protagonist of my work.
Cleaning Utensils 1
Cleaning Utensils 2
“Are these utensils made to clean a body?”
A Mother is a Soap 1
“During the process of cleaning the soap is being derogated in size until it is a small leftover. Does a mother share the same fate?”
A Mother is a Soap 2
Heirloom
“Hair is an ephemeral material. By working it into jewellery, artists try to make it everlasting, to make memories of humans everlasting.”
Portrait
“Spinning is an analogy to beginning, middle and end, to birth, life and death, to past, present and future.”
Nest 1
Nest 2
“Dried blossoms hold memories of an occasion or the person who gifted them. Hair exceeds the body in its persistence.
Will our relationship last forever, or is it just as fragile as a dried blossom?”
Bouquet
Domestic Space
“Carefully I detach the hair from the mop, with which I have just cleaned the floor. I put it into a small plastic bag.
I feel like a thief and a rescuer at the same time.”
“…. was here.”