NAIL SALON
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Nail salons are one of the most enduring, gendered-female services exported from Mainland China to the world, appearing with the same formula.
The salon’s spatial definition is blurred by the activities carried out within it: eating, watching TV, chatting, taking care of their kids, working, etc. The women working in the Hong Kong salons are often not locals, as the factories manufacture the products they use. Thus, the service takes place in multiple interconnected realities but is independent of the spatial boundaries in which it exists.
Starting from their work as the most intimate and the closest connection these women have with their space, the research opens up possibilities to think about it through the connections those women have to near and far, through the economies of their working conditions, the network of communities that support them, the families they take care of elsewhere, ultimately expressing the bondage of human beings across different scales.
The salon’s spatial definition is blurred by the activities carried out within it: eating, watching TV, chatting, taking care of their kids, working, etc. The women working in the Hong Kong salons are often not locals, as the factories manufacture the products they use. Thus, the service takes place in multiple interconnected realities but is independent of the spatial boundaries in which it exists.
Starting from their work as the most intimate and the closest connection these women have with their space, the research opens up possibilities to think about it through the connections those women have to near and far, through the economies of their working conditions, the network of communities that support them, the families they take care of elsewhere, ultimately expressing the bondage of human beings across different scales.
