Hair Drawings
© Alexandra Buhl
Year: 2014-2020
Faces and figures brought to life on the tiles of my shower wall, using loose strands of my hair. Photographed, then washed away.
Edition 15: 59,4 x 84 cm & 29,7 x 42 cm, pigment ink print on Rag Baryta paper.
Edition 25: 24 x 24 cm, pigment ink print on Epson Semigloss paper.
Exhibited at Siger Gallery, London, March 2019, at The Affordable Art Fair, Hong Kong, May 2019 & at The Tommy Flowers, London, August 2019.
Two hair drawing artbooks were created with Malene Lerager of Co'libri Bookbindery, April 2018. The books contain 33 hair drawings printed on Scandia 2000 130g paper, bound with my hair and original tiles from my bathroom, including a unique hair drawing glued onto the front tile. The book won the Danish Bookdesign prize for best handbound book and was exhibited at The Black Diamond june-august 2018 and at BogForum oct 26-28th 2018.
