The School of Art’s Studio 3 Gallery is launching a new exhibition entitled ‘Hair: Textures of Belonging’ today, Wednesday 4 March 2020, at 5pm. Please note that due to ongoing current events, the last day of the exhibition will now be Friday 20th March.
The exhibition was awarded an Arts Council grant for £14,000 and has been co-curated by Dr Eleen Deprez, curator of the Studio 3 Gallery, and Dr Sweta Rajan-Rankin, Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Kent.
‘Hair: Textures of Belonging’ reflects on the social, political and aesthetic significance of hair. With its different textures, grooming practices, interpretations, and symbolic values, hair provides a unique and timely entry point to understanding racialised and gendered belonging among different communities. Artists have long used hair as a material in art practice. Here, they explore hair as a material with affective potential and as a signifier of identity. The impact of the exhibition will be amplified by a day of performance and workshops at the Gulbenkian Theatre on campus.
The exhibition will feature Marina Abramović, Zhu Tian, Sonia Boyce, Yuni Kim Lang, Jayoung Yoon, and Sonya Clark.
Studio 3 Gallery is open 10am – 5pm, Monday to Friday, and the exhibition will close on Tuesday 17 March 2020. (Please note the new closure date, due to the current global health crisis.)
For more details of all upcoming exhibitions in the Studio 3 Gallery, please see:
https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/studio3gallery/
For more details on Arts Council funding, please see the page here:
www.artscouncil.org.uk/funding
UPDATE: There is a Facebook gallery from the opening night of the exhibition available here:
www.facebook.com/pg/unikentarts/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2766724493381667