L: Abya Yala / Guna (2024 / 2025)
R: Aotearoa / Maori (2025)
artist's hair on cotton bedsheets
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Kunstverein Braunschweig 2025
Aotearoa / Maori (2025)
artist's hair on cotton bedsheets
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Kunstverein Braunschweig 2025
Aotearoa / Maori (2025)
artist's hair on cotton bedsheets
dimensions variable
Kunstverein Braunschweig 2025
Aotearoa / Maori (2025)
artist's hair on cotton bedsheets
dimensions variable
Kunstverein Braunschweig 2025
From the series Waters (2024 / 2025 - )
The term Aotearoa, which comes from the Maori language, means “island of the long white cloud.” Today, it is officially used in parallel with the English name for the double island that we have long known only as New Zealand. What Abya Yala / Guna (2024 / 2025) demands is thus already found in this work as a description of the status quo. In solidarity, I embroidered the Maori name with my hair on a light blue bedsheet. With its shape, color, and drape, the sheet evokes the water that surrounds these land masses and, as the Maori say, connects them. The material refers to an everyday sphere in which, however, the private andthe political are connected on many levels. The hair embroidery on the textile evokes moments of disturbance, such as hair left behind on a hotel bed, tangled in a fiber of a freshly washed shirt, or lurking in the soup.