HAIR IS ART:
HAIR IS IDENTITY
Mar 7th- April 18th ; Th-Sat 12-18, Sun 11-16
Hyllie Boulevard 1A Malmö, Sweden
Hair Is Art is the first exhibition of its kind in Malmö. It brings Afro hair into a public setting through sculptural wigs, braided forms, photography and moving images, alongside workshops and spaces for conversation.
Drawing from Afrofuturist thinking, the exhibition uses hair as a medium through which past, present, and future are interwoven across sculptural and conceptual works. The exhibition brings together Malmö-based photographer Ikram Abdulkadir, whose practice grounds the project locally, and Stockholm-based Andrea Davis Krolund, an American photographer and cultural practitioner widely exhibited across the United States. Also featured is Faith Melody, a renowned UK-based hair artist whose Afro hair artistry and embodied practice activates the space through live performance and material engagement.
In Collaboration With
MEET THE ARTISTS
Faith-Melody Ramautar
Faith-Melody Ramautar, also known as faiththedesigner, is an award-winning hair sculpture artist based in South London. Specialising in avant garde, theatrical, and storytelling hair, she transforms Black hairstyling and afro textured hair into sculptural works of art.
Rooted deeply in her Jamaican and Indian heritage, Faith’s work draws from cultural memory, ritual, and tradition. Reimagining braiding and afro texture as a powerful medium for narrative and identity Her creations blur the line between beauty and installation art, honouring the richness of Black hair while pushing it into new conceptual spaces.
Her work has been featured in West End theatre, Fashion Weeks, and across a collective of musical artists, establishing her as a hair storyteller voice within hair artistry.
Andrea Davis Kronlund
Andrea Davis Kronlund is a Stockholm-based, Jamaican-born, US-bred photographer and visual artist. Her work explores the intersection of the personal, cultural, and political in black women’s hair. She is a founder and creative director of krullmag.com and has an extensive background in the creative and cultural industries, including running an art gallery. She’s shown at Brooklyn Museum, International Center of Photography, Bibliothéque Nationale Paris, National Library of Sweden, Kulturhuset, Arts Council of Sweden and various galleries.
She is currently an exhibitions producer at the National Museums for World Culture, Sweden.
Ikram Abdulkadir
Ikram Abdulkadir is a Nairobi-born, malmo based photographer and artist, who has formed her own distinctive style.
For Ikram, photography is a way of bridging the gap between two worlds — the nostalgia of old family photographs, with striking, intimate portraits set against everyday backdrops.
It is her refreshingly honest and warm approach to photography that has brought her much recognition, with collections in the Modern Art Museum, Malmö Konsthall, and Gothenburg Museum of Art, among others. Her work has been featured in The Guardian, and she continues to collaborate with publications like Vogue Andia, Paletten and Styleby Magazine.