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Caring-Laboring Bodies 보살피는-노동하는 몸들


rolling stool, letter press on veg-tan leather,  13” x 13” x 19.69-25.39” each, 2024


Caring-Laboring Bodies (2024) consists of five round stools commonly found in beauty salons and massage parlors. These height-adjustable, mobile chairs symbolize the mechanized, optimized, and migratory bodies of Asian service workers. Quotes from the interviews are lightly pressed onto the flesh-toned upholstery of the chairs. Audiences can read the letters only when they bow down and stroke or contemplate the surface.

- MY HANDS ARE DEFORMED 
- I JUST MAKE A LIVING HERE 
- I DO NOT CARE ABOUT NAILS* 
- THROW MY SCISSORS AT CUSTOMERS 
- THIS IS MY HOME











Photo by Elliot Myers

*private collection of Sara M. Vance Waddell