The exhibition entitled Grow It, Show It! explores the historical, political and everyday cultural significance of hair through a wide range of historical and contemporary photographs, videos and film clips from art as well as fashion and social media. The comprehensive exhibition shows that hair is always a carrier of information. The way we wear our hair is not only determined by the pursuit of beauty ideals, but has always been politically and socially charged as an identity-forming feature, a ritual symbol of power, a spiritual material and a communicator of social status.
Keynian photographer Thandiwe Muriu takes part in this beautiful project, along with Diane Arbus, Julia Margaret Cameron, Anna Ehrenstein, Samuel Fosso and many others.
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