‘Hair Has Always Been an Archive’: Meet Marianne Costade, the Artist Safeguarding Africa’s Cultural Memory

Artist Marianne Costade is using one of humanity’s oldest forms of expression to ensure an important part of Africa’s heritage is not forgotten. The Franco-Senegalese and Congolese visual artist has spent the last several years documenting traditional African hairstyles, transforming them into what she describes as a living archive of Black memory (you can see … Continue reading ‘Hair Has Always Been an Archive’: Meet Marianne Costade, the Artist Safeguarding Africa’s Cultural Memory