No. 010
Kari Anne Helleberg Bahri
Portrait with ponytail
70x30x13cm
Textile object (the artist’s own shirt), found object (ponytail)
2025
US$1,500
I found this object - horsehair whisk at a fleamarket years ago, I thought it looked like my hair. Finally I got to use it in my work.
The shirt I have used in my daily life. I like the striped shirt with its multiple interpretation possibilities ( business/pajamas/prison uniform). The arms/sleeves are sewn close to the body, there is always the issue of not feeling completely free.
About the Artist
Kari Anne Helleberg Bahri
（Norway，b. 1975）
Kari Anne Helleberg Bahri (Norway, b.1975), graduated from the National Academy of Arts in Oslo. Growing up in an environment full of creativity in childhood, Kari Anne escaped from the typical Norwegian minimalist style, inherited the melancholy and cold temperament of Northern Europe, using old clothes, rags, and fragments of fabrics, restitched them and created her own language in textile art. Focusing on the theme of limitations, expectations, regulations, and isolation, these are the subject the each individual confront in the collective society. Kari Anne had exhibited in Kunstmuseet Nord Trøndelag, Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum in Norway, and Socle Du Monde Biennale in Denmark. Her works are permanently collected by Kongsberg Municipality, Den Norske Husflidforening and many other important institutions.
