Hair continues to grow even when it seems that everything else has already been lost. It is one of the most intimate traces of our existence, a material testament to time passing through the body. Hair preserves memory, becoming a relic, an amulet, and a keepsake of those we have loved. Across cultures, it has been attributed with magical, spiritual, and erotic powers. It has served as a symbol of strength, femininity, and social status, but also as an instrument of control, humiliation, and subjugation. It has been cut during rites of passage, offered as a sacrifice, preserved in lockets, and placed in reliquaries alongside the remains of saints.
The exhibition’s title, Hairline, refers both to the line of hair marking the beginning of the face and to a hairline crack, a delicate fracture, a barely perceptible trace of structural rupture. The exhibition unfolds within this space between connection and separation, rootedness and uprooting, intimacy and distance. It is a meditation on inheritance, memory, and the bonds that, even when strained or fractured, never disappear entirely.