NINA BEIER: "European Interiors"

12 Jul - 23 Sep 2018 Spike Island, Bristol
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NINA BEIER

“EUROPEAN INTERIORS”

12.07.-23.09.2018 / SPIKE ISLAND, BRISTOL

 

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Danish artist Nina Beier works with an array of objects that carry particular social histories, from human hair wigs to mechanical rodeo bulls and cigars to soap. By physically challenging these objects in various ways, she investigates how their value is constructed and communicated and reveals implicit power structures.

 

Beier attempts to loosen up and confuse binary constructs such as masculine/feminine, interior/exterior, organic/artificial, global/domestic. For example, the artist employs real hair wigs grown by women in China and India that have been bleached, permed, dyed, cut, and styled in order to imitate a variety of western hair types. Each wig is framed under glass, shifting its status into that of an image while also emphasising its physicality.

 

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Installation photography: Stuart Whipps

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