performance
beauty
2019
beauty
Thursday, April 11, 2013
2-6:00pm, Obalende Motor Park
Lagos, Nigeria
Performers: Ruby Amanze, Deola Gold, Veronny Odili, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Nicole Vlado
Conceived by Nicole Vlado and Wura-Natasha Ogunji, beauty explored the relationships that women have to each other and to their hair. The performers had their hair braided beginning at 2:00pm in this public transportation plaza and then stood with their hair connected until 6:00pm.
This work was conceptualized during Vlado's first visit to Lagos and was partly inspired by the 1977 performance Relation in Time by Marina Abramovic and Ulay.
Photographer: Soibifaa Dokubo
Videographer: Ema Edosio