Toupée (2023)

Performance, 12 hours

On 28/1/2023 I shaved off my mustache, and then spent 4 hours gluing it back on. For the following 8 hours I wandered around Stockholm with a real/fake-mustache going to cafés, bars, vernissages, and 7/11’s, interacting with my friends, peers, and acquaintances. Followed by a camera, waiting for someone to notice that the mustache was fake and call me out. But was it fake? Where did the real begin, and where did I end?

Toupée was documented with 45 photos on film. A selection of the resulting photos were exhibited at the Ebeling Museum in the group exhibition Ruptur. At the opening of the exhibition the original poem The replacement (2023) was performed for the audience, finishing in a grand reveal; removing yet another real/fake mustache, this time on stage. In addition to the Ebeling Museum The replacement (2023) has been performed at Marabouparken Konsthall, and Dopamin #1 on Skeppsholmen.