Lockdown residency  

SHAVA | WAF

WAF's artistic work as part of our Lockdown Residency represents an unadulterated and honest act of self-care - getting rid of your hair.

WAF on the work: The act of shaving my hair off was something I have longed for. Because my hair as a woman, as a Tunisian, as a person of color who lived abroad, also as a young girl who suffered a lot from all these patriarchal indoctrinations about the beauty of women and the erotic side of the hair and the body and things like that. I got to a point in my life where I really wanted to renew myself, and I thought that shaving my hair would be a great way to do that.

Artist: WAF
Title: SHAVA
Year: 2020
Material / technology / format: Video
Length: 6:15 mins

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