Whether you have it in your hand or on any other part of the body, hair is part of our daily routine.
Sometimes, because our only goal is to get rid of it, sometimes because it symbolizes a protest movement against the diktats of beauty today.
What is it used for (hair)? What does it represent?
Through a documentary web-series ("Poilorama") with archives and references to pop culture, ARTE Creative proposed at the end of 2015 to answer these questions in images thanks to unpublished documents and interviews of " experts.
Before you start this hairy journey, here are 3 things to know about our friends / enemies the hairs.
- The hairs have a protective role
In the face of heat, cold or ultraviolet light, hairs (hair and other) generally serve as protection for our bodies, as for all mammals.
Depending on where it is, the hair has a special protective role: near the eyes, the eyelashes protect the cornea, in the ears it hinders the passage of impurities.
- Hair has a sexual dimension
From the second episode of Poilorama, the authors and directors of this web series looked at the sexual character of the hairs.
"The hairs have a strong sexual dimension, more or less conscious," reads Konbini.fr who put online the first two episodes exclusively.
In this second opus, therefore, a psychoanalyst will dissect the diktats related to the hairs and the "pornographic" imagery conveyed by the media, as well as the complexes that can result from it.
- Hair can be used as symbols of protest
As a result of the decades, wearing a light fleece in certain specific places of the body (armpits, etc.) has become a real protest.
Moreover, last year an astonishing movement was born on the social networks: young girls wanted to bring down the diktats of hair removal at all costs by showing all hair outside but especially by coloring them with pastel dyes .
A whole concept.
