Sarah Nõmm is an artist based in Tallinn, Estonia, working with sculpture, installation, and performance. Her work explores the body and the spaces where social, mental, and physical experiences intersect, often drawing from personal experience and traditional crafts like spinning, felting, and weaving. In “The Harvest,” she created a hair-felted headdress inspired by old wedding traditions where cutting a bride’s hair symbolized a loss of personal freedom. “Embraced” features a Shibari rope spun from women’s hair, exploring the tension between intimacy and societal control. “Ritual” reflects on haircuts as transformative acts used to process trauma and symbolize renewal. In “Stringere,” a hair corset examines how hair and corsets, once tools of repression, have become symbols of self-expression and autonomy.
