Hair! Human Stories - Exhibition

Tabitha Moses, Hairpurse, 2004

From intimate personal stories, to unexpectedly global tales about hair’s circulation around the world, Hair! Human Stories explores our curious relationship to hair. Encounter strange artworks made from hair, see images of hair harvests and wig manufacture past and present, and learn about hair’s recycling possibilities.

Curated by Emma Tarlo, anthropologist and author of Entanglement: The Secret Lives of Hair, the exhibition invites you to confront hair – the original human fibre.

7 – 26th June 2018
The Library Space 
London

Photo: Barbers of Freetown and Vietnam

Pictures by  Olivia Acland

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(...) Barbers also take on the role of counsellors, listening to clients agonise over their love lives or confide in them about family crises. The barber shop provides a safe space for people to sit back and unwind - after all, it's important to feel relaxed as someone takes a knife to your chin or a pair of scissors to your head. (...)

Pictures by  James Duong

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Good Hair by Chris Rock

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About black hair culture and its different significations and implications (social, political, cultural, economical). About extensions, relaxer, wigs, natural hair,…

A serious subject treated with humor.

#Society #Economy #Culture #Politic 

#BlackHair #Extension #Wig #Straight #Relaxer

#Documentary
#US #BlackComunity

Website to sell your hair online

Website in French (Europe) 

Before advertising your hair you can calculate its value online.The criteria determining the value are length, volume, natural state or not (natural meaning: no coloration, no perm, not straightened, never having supported any extension), thickness of a single strand, general state (healthy or damaged), color, age and gender.

#Economy

#Natural Hair

#Europe

Natural Hair Trade

GEOreport (in French) about the natural hair trade, following all the successive steps involved, from the "harvest" of natural hair to the hairdresser's re-use of it. The report is presented by Jesus Christ TV, to sensibilise Christians not to wear natural extensions, due to the fact that it is hair initially given to a non-christian divinity.

#Economy #Hairtrade #Religion #Christian
#Extension #Wig 
#Documentary #TVShow