Niki Loizidou
Niki Loizidou
PHASED
#Activist #Historian #MA Arts and Project Management
Body Hair
My work explores contemporary and historical ways in which body hair has been represented through beauty standards. Looking in depth at the relationship individuals have with body hair through having conversations, I do this though asking direct questions and creating these through using my own hair as a material. My work communicates to an audience how by using such a disgusting, yet normal material portrays such a powerful message. By keeping a personal level within my work has allowed conversations to be made and for the audience to feel potentially grossed out by my work whilst still holding the importance and beauty that is behind my piece.
The annual Degree Show is a highly anticipated event amongst staff, students, external partners and friends of the School of Art – it provides a platform for the work that the students have spent so long conceiving and producing. The 2023 Degree Show has been realised through an ongoing testing of ideas in public arenas in which the discourse around art practice takes place. This process of realising practice which engages with audiences has over […]
