Eva Birhanu
Fibre
evabirhanu.com/My work engages in conversation with societal issues faced by Black and mixed women in relation to my own lived experience. Exoticism, objectification, and micro-aggressions are reoccurring themes within my practice, which I explore through the processes of weaving, sculpture, and print. By way of disembodying curly and kinky hair from the form, it allows for a discussion of ownership, protection, and power.
wear my hair
Jacquard weaving using cotton and metallic gold thread.
hair weavings
Body length weavings of cotton thread and acrylic hair extensions.
unbraiding series
Remnants of previously used hair extensions.
i know you want 'em
Hair extensions coated in gold paint and packaged for commercial use.
look - don't touch
Cast bronze braided hair extension.
gummy braids
Cast rubber multiples of braided hair extensions, in a glass jar.
