Taiba Akhuetie

Taiba Akhuetie is a multidisciplinary artist whose primary medium, hair serves as both material and metaphor. Akhuetie is particularly interested in the emotional and historical weight hair carries: its ability to connect generations, signify identity, and hold traces of self. Her work transforms a familiar, intimate substance into sculptural forms that challenge viewers to reconsider beauty, memory, and belonging. 

Working with strands, curls, and fibers in their natural states, she constructs installations that feel simultaneously delicate and monumental. Her approach merges traditional craft sensibilities with contemporary conceptual frameworks, resulting in works that blur the line between body and object. Each piece becomes a tactile archive, capturing stories of heritage, transformation, and the invisible threads that bind communities together.

Through her evolving body of work, Taiba Akhuetie continues to redefine the possibilities of hair as an artistic medium, expanding its narrative potential with intention and poetic precision.