The Combing, 2014

video 3’48” (image/sound) HD

music : An der schönen, blauen Donau, Op.314, a waltz by the Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, composed in 1866.

The video shows a kind of pas de deux in which two young women comb each other’s hair. As they help each other perform this specific everyday act, they literally end up in a knot.