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A new exhibition at Heide Museum of Modern Art explores our sometimes weird relationship with hair.

Some years ago, I had an Italian boyfriend who couldn’t stand to find a hair in the bed. It struck me as bizarre: how can you object to something so inevitable? Hair is part of our lives, whether we’re trying to tame it, remove it, change it or hold on to it. It’s intimate, powerful and political. Across cultures, hair often represents strength, fertility and beauty. It is also associated with the mystical.

According to Keys, hair is associated with beauty and sometimes with health and vitality, but also mortality. “We associate it with surrealism and the uncanny and the unconscious but it’s also so much more than that. It’s social, cultural and political and an economic signifier as well, and quite often it is contradictory,” she says.

, made in 1999, is part of the Heide show. “A horse’s tail coming out of my bum,” is how she describes it with a laugh.

 

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