Washing Her Hair

A woman washes her hair, bending forward to rinse the long strands or to lather them, the weight and wetness of the hair central to the composition. The hair-washing subject belongs to Kotondo's sustained interest in women's private ablutions — activities performed alone, absorbed, without self-consciousness. Wet hair, unbound and heavy with water, is visually very different from dry hair, and Kotondo renders this distinctive condition with the attentiveness of someone interested in the changing states of the body through its daily rituals.