New York, 2007
Single-channel digital video
22 minutes
2 minutes (short version created for FemLink, the International Video-Collage, for their 2008 theme of Preoccupation)
B/N, Silent
Video-performance
The preoccupation with growing old and her obsession with gray hairs leads a woman to pluck out her gray hair.
“Preoccupation (Gray Hair)” deals specifically with women’s obsession with aging. In this work I am criticizing these pressures and standards of beauty. It was made on my 35th birthday when I was still grappling with the dilemma of whether to keep my gray hair or to color it, and also as an attempt to remain young.
Hoy he roto tus cartas (Today I tore up your letters)
Serie “Por siempre joven” (“Forever Young” Series)
Barreto, Meyken and Verónica Sedano. “My Body, My Battlefield.” Online, Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV), October 2021.




Chronicles of Grace
Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY
March 28—April 25, 2026
Curated by Lizzy Alejandro
Preoccupation (Gray Hair)
Video-performance
2 minutes
Forever Young
Artist’s gray hair, black silk
45" x 75" approx.



Meditations on Hair and Beyond,
Hall of Fame Art Gallery, Bliss Hall,
Bronx Community College, Bronx, NY
March 9—April 16, 2026
Preoccupation (Gray Hair)
Video-performance
2 minutes
Untitled (Rinse)
Video
3 minutes 38 seconds
Para verte mejor (The Better to See You With)
Single-channel video
57 minutes 37 seconds, no audio
Hair Weaving Series:
@ El Museo del Barrio’s Back in Five Minutes Residency
Human hair, silk thread, or yarn
#1: 22" x 11" approx.
#2: 47" x 7" approx.
@ the Joan Mitchell Center Artist in Residency
Human hair, Kanekalon braiding hair, dog hair, and cotton thread
#3: 24.5" x 11" approx.
Pin Loom Hair Weaves (L to R: #3, #7 and #5)
Artist’s gray and dark hair, silk thread, and brass rods
Dimensions variable

Mon Corps, Mon Champ de Bataille /
My Body, My Battlefield,
Online, Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV)
October 20–31, 2021
Curated by Meyken Barreto and Verónica Sedano
Curatorial Text
Preoccupation (Gray Hair)
Video-performance
2 minutes


Courtesy of María Adela Díaz
Equinox Contemporary Women’s Exhibition,
Art City Gallery, Ventura, CA
March 20–April 25, 2021
Curated by María Adela Díaz
Preoccupation (Gray Hair)
Video-performance
2 minutes


Courtesy of Highlanes Gallery and Eugene Langan
Bristle: Hair and Hegemony,
Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland
July 8–September 23, 2017
Curated by Roisin Kennedy, Niamh McGuinne, and Aoife Ruane
Preoccupation (Gray Hair)
Video-performance
22 minutes


Courtesy of Rebecca Baillie and Charlotte Lindsay
Braided Together: Hair in the Work of Contemporary Women Artists,
New Hall Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, UK
January 15—February 11, 2012
Preoccupation (Gray Hair)
Video-performance
2 minutes