Charlie le Mindu x Peaches Live Performance 2016
A collaboration with the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, featuring special performances by artist Charlie le Mindu and the acclaimed musician Peaches.
Documentation
Artists
Charlie le Mindu
Charlie le Mindu (b. 1987, Bergerac, France) is a Paris-based visual artist who pioneered the use of human hair, among other nontraditional materials, to bring together the worlds of fashion, performance art, and installation. Through his work in salons and underground performance spaces, le Mindu developed a singular approach to hair as sculpture, image, and performance.
Defying categorization, le Mindu moves between hairstylist, milliner, couturier, sculptor, and performer, creating works that reimagine the body through hair, costume, performance, and constructed identity. His practice draws from nightlife, drag, fantasy, and spectacle, using wigs, costumes, body paint, prosthetics, and sculptural forms to create worlds of his own. His wearable works sculpted with real and synthetic hair have been worn by performers including Lady Gaga, Peaches, and Bjork, among others. In 2024, he created hair costumes for Doja Cat’s Coachella performance.
Peaches
Peaches is a Canadian musician, producer, director, and performance artist whose work spans electroclash, electropunk, theater, visual culture, and performance-based pop. Since the release of The Teaches of Peaches in 2000, she has developed a fearless artistic language centered on gender, sexuality, power, humor, and bodily autonomy.
Defying easy categorization, Peaches moves between music, performance, direction, and visual art, creating work that challenges social conventions and expands the possibilities of feminist and queer expression. Her performances are known for their directness, wit, physicality, and confrontational energy, placing the body at the center of questions around identity, desire, power, and self-determination.