Hairsalon

Wearables are made from fique by weaving, wrapping and sewing the fibre into wigs, capes, extensions and sculptural accessories. When worn against the skin or braided through hair, the fibre’s touch becomes part of how the body thinks and moves.

The project is developed in workshops staged as a hair salon. Fique steps in as a co-author of appearance — a plant fibre taking part in how a person is shaped and seen. Beauty is one layer, but so is behaviour. We meet the fibre as a living presence with its own tendencies. The fiber also uses the hair-salon to perform and to reclaim its own idenstity and agency.

What new forms of relation appear when a plant material touches the body and participates in shaping how we look and move? Can fibre become a vehicle for common ground between humans and non-human worlds? And where might those shared identities lead?