URŠA RAHNE: When you see my fake lashes, Do you imagine my shaved P****
Published on August 16th, 202519. 08. 2025 / 18H / CIRKULACIJA2
The exhibition “When you see my fake lashes, Do you imagine my shaved P**”** addresses the role of body hair as a means of control over the body. Through various media, the artist explores how beauty ideals, dictated by the patriarchal system and the capitalist industry, shape the female* body and the rituals associated with it. The exhibition focuses on the hairless ideal and on rituals of both hair removal and hair addition. Unwanted hair is systematically removed, while at the same time it is artificially added in places where it is expected to enhance femininity. This paradox, underpinning every beauty ideal of femme bodies in patriarchal society, exposes the unattainability of beauty standards and their role in maintaining gender hierarchies, binaries, and patriarchal control over bodies.
The works in the exhibition challenge expectations of what constitutes an “appropriate” female body, using humor to highlight the violence embedded in seemingly benign beauty practices.
By using hair as a symbolic material, the artist reclaims control over the body in the context of the male gaze and the interests of capital.
*Female = FLINTA
Photo: Gregor Podržaj
The exhibition is part of a graduation project at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Department of Video and New Media.
Video documentation of interventions in public space: Petra Kraševec, Gaja Pegan Nahtigal, Veshta Ishtvar
Special mentions: Kela, Scissoring Hair, Asiana Jurca Avci, Teja Miholič, Hristijan Nashulovski, Matic Brinc & Cirkulacija2
