Hair is manipulated, shaped, collected and traded. It says a lot about us, but we rarely mention it when discussing art. As
Kobena Mercer puts it in a widely quoted article, hair “is never a straightforward biological “fact’ because it is almost always
groomed, prepared, cut, hidden and generally worked on’ This practice socialises hair, making it the medium for important
‘statements’ about self and society, and the code of values that bind them, or not. In this project, I explore the possibilities of
hair from a photographic perspective. I have divided my journey into three stages, the first in which I explore the detached hair
itself, the second in which I explore the place of the wig in aesthetics, and the third in which I explore the relationship between
hair and the human body. In my opinion hair itself is fascinating, it doesn’t really decay and it contains a certain amount of
human DNA, it’s like a bond between people. With a sense of eternity, or something more than just transience, I think it reflects
the fragile yet resilient nature of the human being. The separated hair is undeniably dead, but still stubbornly alive. It is a product
of man, as wool is a product of sheep, silk is a product of silk pupae. It is the material evidence of the self, which proclaims the
existence of its reproductive body in the form of shedding. Hair has been given so many different meanings in different cultural
contexts-. Hair means care, hair means race, culture, it means defiance and it means punishment, it is carved into display, it is
sacred and to be protected. It is private and intimate, but it is also public and political.