Estatua de una negra, 2025, by Janice Reid. Reid's photographs featured at an exhibition at Toronto’s United Contemporary gallery in August, alongside paper works from Ojo Agi.

One of the most staggering works of art I have ever seen was a knotted full-body garment made entirely out of human hair.

It was part of Amartey Golding’s broodingly beautiful exhibition, In the comfort of embers , which ran at the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto in 2023. The wearable sculpture was co-created by Kevin Fortune, a London-based celebrity hairstylist and makeup artist. When I asked how it arrived in Canada, I was told it was transported in an oversized custom durag.

The theatrical, thematically rich piece commingles Black hairstyles in its intricate design, speaking to themes

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