Elena Fajt (SI): 1958

Trimmed hair, a worn-out material we usually throw away, is the basic building block of wall painting. The mural reveals itself in two different ways. We read it up close as a swarm of shorter hairlines, dark lines, or threads on a white background that thickens and thins, that follow each other and intersect. They draw images, but in no way do they draw them definitively. Only a view from afar creates the readability of the whole image, the distance is the key to the final image.

The wall installation is part of the continuous project Lasnine/Hairsene, which the author has been developing since 2000 and which has been presented in many solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad. The starting material of the project is natural hair, their ambivalence and aesthetic, symbolic and cultural placement are the space of creative research.

Elena Fajt works in the fields of textile and clothing design, visual arts and costume design. After completing her studies in textile and clothing design at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of Ljubljana, she began her creative career as a costume designer. Her oeuvre includes more than sixty theatrical and dance costumes on domestic and foreign stages, as well as several film costumes. Since 2000, she has been developing the Lassense / Hairsense art project. She is the initiator of the award-winning creative platform shirting…, which establishes a sustainable clothing model. She is the co-editor of the first scientific study on fashion in Slovenia – “Fashion and culture of clothing” and the recipient of several awards. Since 2008 he has been teaching at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of Ljubljana.