Beschreibung
Francesca Allens Konkursas depicts participants in Lithuanias Konkursas Pasaulio Ilgaplaukes annual competition for the worlds longest hair. Here hundreds of girls and women with thousands of feet of hair walk the runway and have their lovingly groomed hair measured by gloved judges, before shaking it in a ceremonial finale. Allens fascination with ritual and coming-of-age sparked her interest in the contest, one which blends pageantry with folklore and allows the artist to deepen her thoughts on hair within femininity: Hair influences how we are perceived by others, how professional we appear, our identity, our religion and culture. It plays a huge role in the enactment of self and also our discrimination against others. The resulting photographshaunting, funny, slightly surrealexplore the dichotomy between modernity and tradition, obsession and aspiration, and ideas of girl- and womanhood. This book is the first of many to be printed and published by Steidl in collaboration with Chloé Arts, an initiative driven under the creative direction of Chemena Kamali, embracing Chloés legacy of female creativity. Its mission is to celebrate outstanding female talent, nurture emerging artists, and create unexpected interdisciplinary conversations across different fields of the arts. Copublished with Chloé Arts, Paris
Herstellerkennzeichnung:
Steidl Verlag
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37073 Göttingen
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