Stretched Perm is a series of ongoing prints of inked hair bundles. Each print is isolated and discontinuous, but when lined up, they appear in infinite continuity. The work refers to a concept of history that constitutes past events and their representations “as past events” in vicissitudinous narrative plots of swaying incidents, which constructs the impression of continuity.
The materiality of hair and the series of discontinuous frames compel an inversion of this idea. The hair refers symbolically to the fact that any access to past events is naturally mediated through personal experiences, and, like the prints displayed in each frame, these individual memories are singular.
Individual appropriations of time through personal experience and its integration with the construction of history relate to each other through the human body and brain, mind, memory, and age. History is human, and everything human is exposed to time. History is the sum of the individual processes of aging; it is by nature discontinuous, and any attempt to represent it differently would be immediately cast under the suspicion of being driven by political or economic interests.
