NadeenMatekya loves styling, a reward despatched to her from her grandmother. The Congolese-born artist sees the coiffure as an artwork. NadeenMatek participates in parades, exhibits the potential of her hair and sublimates the queen who sleeps in each lady. The African headdress can be the frequent thread in his artistic course of.
Once I’m not dwelling I am within the studio in artistic mode and I actually have loads of little drawings all over the place, wickets all over the place, pearls all over the place, cowries and it is my little universe, my little world the place I really feel good, placed on some music and let’s go .
Nadeen Mateky has an atypical profession. She was born within the Congo, arrived in France on the age of 4, then returned to Africa from the age of 8 till she was 13. It was throughout this era that her grandmother taught her methods to fashion hair. Again in Paris, she labored as an accountant however she didn’t like calculations. She due to this fact decides to pursue her ardour: hairdresser. And at present, Nadeen Mateky is understood for her hair creations which might be worthy of African queens.
Headdresses, hairstyles and cultural riches
“Once I make hair sculptures, I hint the historical past of some queens in Africa, our ancestors, our grandmothers who wore their hair naturally and who wore stunning headdresses, ornaments. My sculptures are impressed by all of the ancestral headdresses that every one these girls wore,” Nadeen explains Makety.
“I could make sculpture with simply that hair, however I all the time want one thing on the aspect. For instance, I take advantage of raffia rather a lot. Typically I additionally use aluminum wire to come back and pose. Some wiggle on it, to lift; some responsibility too, “There are numerous supplies that I take advantage of. To make these sculptures, I present myself with artificial hair as a result of it’s a really manageable materials, in all instructions, and it doesn’t price an excessive amount of as a result of in any other case I might be destroyed afterwards,” provides Nadeen Makety .
Consciousness and beliefs
Nadeen Mateky’s mission is to unite girls with the character of hair.
“I, I would like to take away this picture that has all the time been positioned in our heads that the black lady, she is sweet for nothing, that she has soiled hair, ‘frizzy’ hair. For me, it’s a time period that’s derogatory. It’s a approach to spotlight myself and in addition all girls and particularly African girls, on condition that I personally am an African lady and to say to them: ‘you might be stunning together with your ebony pores and skin, you might be stunning together with your pure hair., You might be stunning as you might be, so settle for your self ‘, says the hairdresser.
“At present there are individuals like a gentleman we name Nsibentum who’ve been christened ‘cheveutologue’ and we frequently work collectively. He’s there to switch this information to girls. He’s a person however he talks about his hair as if it had been a “It is very superb. I believe it is very good and I’ll proceed to achieve this,” concludes Nadeen Mateky.
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