When founder of Hayaty Diaries Christina Shoucair's sister chopped her long, flowing hair into a chic bob, her personality transformed with it. She had always been proud of it, and chopping it off without warning seemed to reorganise something in how she identified herself. That shift set Shoucair thinking about what hair actually carries beyond appearance: a self-definition that others can read from across a room.
The resulting exhibition, 'What Touches the Scalp is Close to the Bone', opens June 3rd in Paris's and runs through June 10th. Presented by Hunna Art and curated by Hayaty Diaries, the show brings together artists from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia around a single starting point: what hair carries beyond the physical.
