La fille aux cheveux de lin

Wooden carved hairbrush (21x32x35cm) and braided hair in spirals (40x40cm). From the day-to-day routine of brushing hair as a women, I investigated the idea of banal activities and their relationship with beauty standards and gendered representations.

Echoing Harmony Hammond's works (Floorpieces, 1973; Speaking braids, 2000-02), I explored notions of bond, erotism, sense of self and imaginary to challenge the binary divides and go beyond rigid boundaries of gendered representations.