Gordon Matta-Clark was a significant figure in post-minimal and conceptual art. In much of Matta-Clark’s work cutting becomes an action that hints towards a contemporary archeology, through the dissection of buildings. In Hair the same formal processes are applied to the body. Matta-Clark left his hair to grow wild for 1 year, and then had it cut off on New Year in a performance-like matter. His hair was catalogued in a quasi-scientific manner, that hinted towards anthropological study. The clumps of hair, now rastas, linked to a sense of otherness embedded in the study of race in the Americas.