This evocative 1993 performance by Janine Antoni saw the Bahamian–born American artist soak her head in black hair dye, before using it as a mop to paint the floor of the Anthony d’Offay Gallery in London. The more ground she covered, the less room there was for her audience, who were eventually edged out of the space altogether. “The artist’s actions conjured up the marks of Abstract Expressionist painting, linking them to the chore of mopping,” Antoni explains on her website, about this headstrong challenge to notions of female domesticity.
