R A D I C A L C A R E (July 2025), is a two-parts installation that consists of a hand-felted human hair tapestry (400×190cm) growing chia sprouts in real time, and a collection of individual hair donations.
By felting 30 kilos of human hair, i wanted to bring together aspects of connection, intimacy and presence.
As a technique, wet felting conveys agency and resistance and it opposes practices of fast production/consumption/pollution existing in the ways of hyper capitalism today.
How do we relate to hair once it is disconnected of the human body?
What can happen if we challenge social norms around impurity, disgust and decay that are related to human hair?
What can be found when we transgress the abject?
DECAY . ENCOUNTERS . CREATION . ALTERATION . EXPLORING . SYMBIOSIS . TOGETHER . SPECIES . CONCOCTIONS . REACTIONS . BIOLOGICAL . INTERACTIONS . IMAGINATION .
DECAY . ENCOUNTERS . CREATION . ALTERATION . EXPLORING . SYMBIOSIS . TOGETHER . SPECIES . CONCOCTIONS . REACTIONS . BIOLOGICAL . INTERACTIONS . IMAGINATION .
How can we sense intimacy through a material process?
How do we approach cycles of transformation?
How can we explore the relationship between species through transmutation of bodies/territories at a molecular level?
