Alessandra Rinaudo

Project statement:

This succession of photographs, which show myself, naked, while I cut my hair sitting on a chair in front of a school desk, with pink childish scissors and a small round mirror, is the staging of a childhood memory.

When I was a child I often cut my hair by myself and if my mother would see me she will punish me. The title of the series is related to one of these episodes.

In adulthood, my body 'punishes' me, causing me to lose all or some part of my hair when Istress out or harm myself emotionally.

The ‘Hair’ are one of the recurring themes of my photographic works. In my previous project I had myself photographed during the healing process from alopecia, which is a disease in which the body decides to attack a part of itself that recognizes as stranger.

In this sequence, which is the recording of a performance, I decide to cut my own hair, removing from myself that characteristic that makes me more feminine, while I seek an internal change, which oftentimes is easier to manifest exteriorly.