The Harvest
Hair, copper, video installation
Video in collaboration with Loora Kaubi
Hair carries a long, intimate history of power and control. While researching old wedding traditions, I kept finding rituals centered on hair – especially the headdress, a threshold into marriage that often signaled obedience- In many cultures, brides also had their hair cut short, tied to the belief that a woman’s power lived in her hair.
These rites echo today in the fetishisation and regulation of women’s body hair. Hair remains a gendered battleground – debated, policed, and shamed, as if it no longer belongs only to the person it grows from.