opening hours:Tue, Wed 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Thur, Fri 10 a.m.– 8 p.m. Sat, Sun 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Mon closed
Venue:Museum Folkwang
Museumsplatz 1
45128 Essen
Roxana Rios work FIGURE, FORM is part of the group exhibition Grow It, Show It! which takes place at Museum Folkwang. Roxana Rios finished the studies at HGB 2023 with a diploma.
The exhibition entitled Grow It, Show It! explores the historical, political and everyday cultural significance of hair through a wide range of historical and contemporary photographs, videos and film clips from art as well as fashion and social media. The comprehensive exhibition shows that hair is always a carrier of information. The way we wear our hair is not only determined by the pursuit of beauty ideals, but has always been politically and socially charged as an identity-forming feature, a ritual symbol of power, a spiritual material and a communicator of social status.
In its historical and popular science dimension, the exhibition explores the question of how representations of hair at the interface of art, fashion and advertising photography are not only the subject of the beauty industry, but also of queer-feminist, body-political and post-colonial discourses. At the same time, the exhibits dating from the 19th century to the present day shed light on the ways in which images of hair have consolidated and defined trends over the course of time.
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