Necrocosmetics of power

power’ is a visual essay that departs from a specific matter as it is the invention of anti-rape nail polish. This product, which at the end was never launched, works as an excuse to talk about male-dominant culture and how violence is impelled through aesthetic and cosmetic prothesis which responsibilize the victim. The concept of necrocosmetics, derived from Achille Mbembe’s term necropolitics, brings us closer to all those mortifying techniques that go against women’s bodies.

I need a haircut

video excerpt

2020

Necrocosmetics of power

video excerpt

2020

In I need a haircut, the artist uses the anti-lockdown protests which took place in the USA as a paradigm of class . Protest banners where we can read

‘I need a massage’ or ‘Who do I have to screw 4 a haircut?’ are intertwined with images from women all across the world cutting men’s hair while the lockdown lasted. It is a short experimental journey which starts with the ends and finishes with the roots.

The format of this video is square, adapting to the size of Instagram’s feed, so images remain circulating on the same network they were taken from.