Kesha Sculpture

“Kesha” means hair in Sanskrit. Kesha is an exploration of the restraint and power enforced by societal perceptions of female beauty. It focuses on the anatomical body, using decontextualization and magnification of parts to emphasis the fragile nature of the viewer's preconceptions of positive femininity, easily transformed into anxiety and awareness of latent and dangerous force.  Hair is an aspect of beauty unconfined by cultural boarders, yet each society proscribes different rules governing its exhibition. It is ascribed a life of its own by many women and yet it impinges on their own self-perceptions and conceptions of the onlookers.  The knot of the hair structure engenders a feeling of tight constraint giving way to the freedom of the remaining part which nevertheless is itself contained within the room. The red head adds to the warning of the archetypal female arachnid-esqe form of the freer hair follicles, each contributing to the overall feeling of being trapped both as the artwork and the viewer.  This installation consist of a female naked figure that sits for about 3 to 4 hours intervals throughout the show and a sculpture installation made up of black foam pipes representing hair. The naked figure with her face almost masked evokes the mask of anxiety laden with shame, depicts a melancholic Romantic perception of nature, the void as “terror” as she sits on a chair with her hair hanging down positioned right in front of the "Kasha” hair sculpture confronting with the mixed emotions whilst in the act of pulling her hair off her head either in a state of great concentration or absentmindedly. Oscillating from a space of lightness and darkness conjuring an effect of in a sublime dreamlike trance. The viewers experience themselves in their own space and driven to see their position inside the metaphor of the fragile structure. Inciting them to engage with the emotional and intellectual realm of the performance installation. The open space in which these viewers move corresponds to an in-between space of the performer’s realm. This in-between space experienced through shame and pleasure. Kesha poses questions of identity formation, bodily perception, dominance structures and the power of looking. It moves between the social and public space and the private organic space, juxtaposing feelings of freedom and constraint, hidden and divulged thoughts.  I want to let my hair down.......

Sculpture:other on Soft (Yarn, Cotton, Fabric)

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:196.9 W x 137.8 H x 196.9 D in

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