Hair. Woman’s hair keeps information about all knowledges and experiences which she had during whole life. Emotions, tears, mistakes, love, pain, destruction, rebirth. Hair ‘s like a paintbrush. This tool is very strong. You could make art object without mediators. Just artist and canvas.
In Loving Care (1992) Antoni uses her hair as a paintbrush and Loving Care hair dye as her paint. Antoni dips her hair in a bucket of hair dye and mops the gallery floor on her hands and knees and in the process pushes the viewers out of the gallery space.Once again, in this process Antoni explores the body, as well as themes of power, femininity, and the style of abstract expressionism.
Janine Antoni ‘s contemporary artist, conceptual photographer, sculpture and performing artist. Janine Antoni was born in Freeport, Bahamas in 1964. She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College in New York, and earned her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1989. Antoni’s work blurs the distinction between performance art and sculpture. Transforming everyday activities such as eating, bathing, and sleeping into ways of making art, Antoni’s primary tool for making sculpture has always been her own body.
For additional biographic & bibliographic information:
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
Janine Antoni on the Art21 blog
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