Is blonde a colour or a state of being? Perhaps blonde-ness is a lack of colour? In Birgir Birgisson’s recent work, colour has been virtually stripped away, taken back to the palest hue. A remark by the MP Dianne Abbot about “too many blonde nurses from Finland and Poland working in British hospitals” triggered an obsession: Birgisson embarked upon a series of works in which the ideology and politics of blonde-ness is addressed. His work has a pastel-shaded seductiveness, yet it chills and disturbs – as if he is subjecting ‘objectification’ itself to an acerbic scrutiny.