Zwarte Piet Hair Clips

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Zwarte Piet Hair Clips

Seven metal hair clips with silicone Zwarte Piet decorations attached to the top of the clip. The hair clip is coloured pink, matching the outfit of the Zwarte Piet figure attached to it. This figure is dressed with rosy lips, rosy cheeks, pink ribbons at the end of each pigtail, and a bright pink and blue hat with a green feather protruding from it.

Metal Clips

Facing Blackness is a multimedia exhibition that takes the public through the obscure history of portraying Black people from the colonial period to contemporary society. Using unique archive material and visual art, we show how anti-black racism became part of the Dutch 'cultural archive' and our everyday ideas, customs and utensils. On the other hand, the exhibition shows how there has always been 'everyday resistance' to various forms of racism and how Black people themselves have given and continue to give meaning to their culture and identity.

The Black Archives

Zwarte Piet Hair Clips

Zwarte Piet

Hat, Feather, Ribbons

c.2000s?

5x1.5x0.5

Netherlands

Zwarte Piet, Sinterklaasfest, Children, Black Caricature

Richard Weaver