Just a Trim (ongoing)

For this project, artist Linda Duvall visits hair salons with interesting names in various local and international locations.  She requests ‘just a trim’. From that point on, it is up to the stylist/hair cutter to decide about the state of Duvall’s hair. Decisions about the resulting hair creation depend on the stylist’s assumptions about the artist based on her presenting appearance, on the hairstyles currently in vogue, or even on the stylist’s favorite cut.

After each visit to a salon, the stylist or someone nearby takes images both of the artist and the exterior of the salon. The artist maintains her ‘new’ look for the rest of the day.

Regardless of one’s connection to any city, one is placed in an intimate relationship with an individual who lives there when one goes into a beauty salon. For the length of the ‘trim’, a stranger is touching one’s hair and in direct physical contact.

Duvall has had trims in Berlin, London, Toronto, Saskatoon, Belfast, Westport (Ireland), New York, Montreal, Dublin, Delisle (rural Saskatchewan), Munster, etc.

Exhibition – University of Saskatchewan – Display Case

And Many More

Presented in Kunsthaus Santa Fe, espacio de Arte contemporaneo