Beyond Beauty: How a Ghanaian Artist Finds Ancestral Memory in the Hair Salon

In an immersive installation at a residency in Togo, the Ghanaian artist explores how African hairstyling preserves ancestral memory, challenges beauty standards, and transforms everyday rituals into acts of cultural expression. A salon chair can be more than a place to sit. Between the rhythmic movement of a stylist’s hands, the tightening of braids and … Continue reading Beyond Beauty: How a Ghanaian Artist Finds Ancestral Memory in the Hair Salon