Persie Toindepi, From My Mother’s Mother, 2022, copper wire, dimensions variable. Photograph courtesy of the artist.

from my mother’s mother

“Growing up I struggled to feel beautiful and feminine with my natural hair, it was the polar opposite of the Eurocentric beauty standards I grew suppressed by… I created this work to highlight the beauty in Afro hair.”

Persie Toindepi is a Zimbabwean-Australian emerging artist. Currently, the primary focus of her work is hair, which she uses as a tool to dissect her struggles with femininity, masculinity, race and her upbringing in Western culture.

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