Pull My Hair

Pull My Hair is about our ambivalent relationship to the body. The bathroom cabinet explores how disgust and attraction can meet at the breakdown of social and physical barriers.

The work explores philosopher Julia Kristeva’s concept of abjection, a repulsive disgust with attraction intertwined. It arises when barriers created to define our state of being are jeopardized. The cabinet confronts social barriers as well as those between body and surroundings. The door separates the carnality of the inside from the outside world. But the barrier is broken by hair spilling out, evoking both disgust and a curiosity that entices to pull the hair to open. In this, the social barrier between public and private is overrun. 

The design process explored expression of will through form, storytelling in interaction with furniture, and wet moulding of leather.