HAIR CAPSULE
1996, Hair in Glass Medallion, made to order
Disturbingly strange, cut hair can be a source of fascination. It offers up itself to a passionate ritual and becomes a liturgical object. Braided into a genealogical dress, it combines mothers with daughters in a delicate gradation, an exposed shell. It forms strips on a wax column and becomes Cinderella shoe; worn like a pendant it becomes a relic, jewellery or a painting. The universe of Frédérique Decombe is entirely in symbols, a survival from our primitive state that she glorifies. Our hair belongs to her. In her hands it is immortal.
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