Several of Kaabi-Linke’s past works have used her hair or prints derived from it – female hair carrying a host of associations and ascriptions such as time, age, desire, beauty and elegance – altogether summed up in a rather masculine idea of femininity. On the other hand, Negative of Black Hair on White Ground, a printed monotype with acrylic, uses hair in an abstract painting showing nothing but white-washed imprints of hair neutralised by any kind of narrative while formally referencing the black square of Malevich that was breaking the need for representation.
— Asma Al Shabibi
