Peluqueria (Salon de coiffure), 1979
This series is both emblematic and founding of Ouka Leele’s work.
In the midst of Madrid’s Movida period, the artist produced black and white photographic portraits of her close friends, who were often themselves actors in the cultural world of the time, wearing the most outlandish and astonishing hairstyles (octopus, dildo or syringes). These images, painted in watercolour with garish tones, flirting with an assumed kitsch, show the spirit of provocation, the breath of freedom and extravagance of young Spanish artists in a country barely out of the stranglehold of Franco’s regime.
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