Shirin Fathi

Tangle Teaser, Sarabande Foundation 2023

Acting as a marker of beliefs and attitudes, the way hair has been used as a material over time reveals our relationships to some of the major concerns that affect our societies - from a reflection of gender identity to a weapon for Iranian women, as a measure to gauge racial purity to a material that provokes both desire and disgust. The exhibition explored how artists use hair to examine themes of lineage, transformation, tradition, gender, sexuality, politics and liberation.

Tangle Teaser was part of Women Artists’ Art Week World, an initiative celebrating the work of female-identifying artists, and featured work by Anouska Samms, Isabel Castro Jung, Laila Tara H, Paloma Tendero, Rosie Gibbens, Shannon Bono, Camilla Hanney and Shirin Fathi.