May 13th, 2006

Press to Exit project space
Skopje, Macedonia

author: Iskra Dimitrova
sound arrangement: Damyan Cvetkov-Dimitrov

17 digital photographs (30x40 cm.), barber chair, razor, frame,
barbers perfume bottle, belt, scissors, brush, barbershop’s odor, sound

The project is installation, artistic transcription of the barbershop as communication place.

Press to exit project space where the show takes place is next to the space where up till recent times was placed the well known city barbershop Cafure, the objects are authentic: the barber chair belongs to the barbershop Esthetics where the barber Ruzdi was for the first time in the city making the famous haircut John Travolta; the objects, the odor and sounds are borrowed from the famous city barbershops.

The barbershop was exclusively masculine place with intimate atmosphere, important information center, and barber was having important social status.
In this barbershop, as well, there are photographs on the walls that mirror someone’s affinities. By the whisper of the female speech through the four strands of hair, a replacement of the missing male basses communication is made. The hairs on the photographs are narrations on the owners absent bodies. The relationship we usually have to a specific hair is identical to the relationship towards his/her ex-keeper, to his/her identity and eroticism. Adequately our relationship to a certain hair varies from abjection to attraction.

These four hair stories are rehearsals of personal situations that could happen or happened to each of us, some precious moments narrated through the whisper, which a visitor reaches by the personal engagement of archeology on the photographs. The stories of this barbershop are transformed from intimate to shared and public, as at any ordinary barbershop.