91茄子

Follicle challenge

Published on
September 22, 2006
Last updated
May 22, 2015

To confront Kurdish and Islamic views of female and male forms, an MA sculpture graduate from Winchester School of Art created a work featuring garments made of human hair. Rosa Ilgen, a refugee from Kurdish Turkey, wanted to raise issues of identity, ethnicity and multiculturalism by producing a headscarf from human hair that she had collected by cycling to hairdressers in Hampshire cities and towns. She then covered herself in the hair. She finished with a vast installation that incorporated a windowless room, a single light bulb and a poem about so-called honour killings in Turkey being recited by four different speakers in four different languages.

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