Caring-Laboring Bodies. installation
보살피는-노동하는 몸들. 설치
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*
* Vance Waddell Colleciton
- THROW MY SCISSORS AT CUSTOMERS - THIS IS MY HOME
Photo by Elliot Myers