Pepón Osorio
En la barbería no se llora
(No crying allowed in the barber shop)
1994

Installation: Barber’s chairs, VCR, video monitors, mixed media collage.

Dimensions vary.

En la barbaria no se Ilora (No crying allowed in the barber shop) evokes the coded preserve of the Latino barber shop through the display of actual barber chairs. A video monitor in the headrest of each chair displays footage that consists of repeated, almost ritualized gestures of barbers and customers. With this work, Pepón Osorio honors the contradictions and the opportunities inherent to membership in a minority community.