Secondary Research - Hair - Artists, Concepts, Ideas etc...

Karin Stack use's photo's of peoples hair in different stages of growth...once again shows how you can show different sides of people's identity just with images....I really like it..Click hair for website



















Doris Salcedo 'uses everyday domestic and personal items, such as furniture and clothing, and organic substances, such as bone, hair and animal fibre. These materials are brought together to make evocative works that address loss, grief, pain, memory, absence and mourning.' This seems to really touch on the idea of visualizing human identity....Here is the link to the rest of the article and more work.

Below is another intersting use of hair....Mona Hatoum's 'pieces are concerned with confrontational themes such as violence, oppression and voyeurism, often in reference to the human body.' Here is the whole article...



Van Gogh's Back 1995

Photograph on paper
image: 600 x 403 mm
on paper, print