NGOL 2019 | Performance | Salooni GOL 2019 | Performance | Salooni
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SALOONI
KAMPIRE BAHANA (1987, UGANDA) AND DARLYNE KOMUKAMA (1984, UGANDA)
Salooni is a multidisciplinary art project that explores the politics woven through and straightened out of black women’s hair. Two of its founding members, Kampire Bahana and Darlyne Komukama, will present a pop-up hair salon at N’GOLÁ where visitors can have their hair done, work with other people ́s hair and have their portrait taken. A multimedia installation featuring photography and lm provides more background to the Salooni project.
The four Ugandan women who created Salooni treat African hair as a science, culture and art, studying everything from traditional hairstyle patterns to braiding as an act of resistance among slaves. Through short lms, live art performances, theatre and photography, Salooni presents the ways in which historical memory and ways of being are woven into the nap of black peoples’ hair. Their aim is to address negative notions about Afro- textured hair, the legacy of a period on the African continent when beauty standards were dictated by white culture. Salooni notes that, even now, Ugandan school policies dictate that ‘black students aren ́t allowed to grow their hair because it ́s seen as an expression that you are untameable.’
Salooni: ‘It is our contribution to a conversation that black women have been having, now more frequently online with the natural-hair-movement, but also one that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers had with one another and continue to have with us. The styles, strategies and practices of hair care passed down across time and migrations. Today, this gives black girls not only a history of our hair, but a science of survival in a white supremacist world, as well as a glimpse of our potential futures.’
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