A girl will be full of blood-stained hair
this monster is a girl.
her hair is a mirror, and the mirror is your room
“A girl will be full of blood-stained hair” is a delves into the way women have been portrayed in pop culture and media, always too emotional and too irrational to exist beyond a misogynistic stereotype.
Through online self exposure and hypervigilance, becoming a woman and a monster turns into a ritual for self preservation.
This is an on-going exploration on the girl online narrative where the existence of women and girls online under a patriarchal system is commodified and expression out of the male gaze becomes monstrosity, and how existing in this conditions can become a normalized traumatic experience leading to hypervigilance on the female body under its scrutiny on a constant basis.
like a self-live stream of oneself.
Pink hair is a symbol of artificiality and hyper femininity that marks in many generations an experimentation of identity and humanhood in general. When you don’t know yet who you are, you go artificial to question reality and yourself.
Through a human-sized pink hair sculpture as a representation of girlhood and growing up online, this exploration is about the instrumentalization of female pain, what it takes to be soft and vulnerable online in order to find yourself reflected on media or completely rejected.
This mixed-media installation is a girl, a monster exploring the grotesque act of being an woman under her own scrutiny, finding yourself into the other’s pain and reflecting up on it.
Glitch projection is détournement and a supercut of Anna, female lead of the 1981 movie Possession by Andrzej Zulawski.
All photos by Hsun-Hsiang Hsu