Yolanda Naranjo

Artist Statement

This piece emerges from a repetitive, embodied gesture: the act of spinning human hair. An intimate and deeply personal material, the hair used in the work has been donated by women within my circle, grounding it in a relation of trust, permission, and exchange. It carries traces of presence, memory, and lived experience. Hair holds time in a quiet way, shaped by daily life, touch, and care, and the ongoing process of growth and renewal.

Through rotation, strands are gathered, twisted, and held under tension, a repetitive gesture carried out by hand. Through spinning, something soft and dispersed is drawn into a thread. As hair is worked in this way, it moves from an individual trace into a line that gathers what was separate, gaining strength through connection.

Each spindle holds this accumulation of gesture and time. Together, they form a field where each element remains distinct, yet exists alongside the others. What appears singular becomes multiple; what is private becomes communal. The installation creates a space shaped by rhythm, proximity, and quiet intensity.

The gesture remains visible in each piece, continuing through the work as it unfolds in relation to one another.

Title: Primal Thread

Kind: 
Installation: 28 Suspended Spindles Forming a Spatial Field

Materials: Human Hair, Wood, Metal

Variable dimensions