Since 2009 I have been collecting my hair as it falls from my head, spinning it into a yarn and in live performance crocheting it into a mask. I intend to eventually cover my whole body. The very qualities of my natural kinky hair that make it unruly and coarse, often perceived as negative in western notions of beauty, are those that facilitate the manipulation of the material. I work with these qualities and the affective state of my hair: the way it can be perceived as beastly, as something not-human, something to be feared to challenge aesthetic notions and values.
Performance, July 4th 2026, as part of Up and Down, at Scheune, part of 48 Stunden Neukölln. Duration 1.5 hours. Documentation by Manuel Baumann and Christoph Hey.
Performance 2018, as part of my solo exhibition Sticky Feelings, at La Centrale, Montreal, Canada.
Performance 2016, as part of the festival Tempting Failure, London, UK. Documentation Julia Bauer
Performance 2016, as part of the exhibition Fraud, Fake, Fame: Goldrausch 2016, at St. Johannes-Evangelist, Berlin, Germany
Performance, March 27th 2015 as part of my solo exhibition Contagious Affections. Duration: approximately 1 hour. Documentation by Camilla Topuntoli and Maximilien Van Aertryck.