BOOK LAUNCH — “Reflections on a Domestic Hair Salon” by Ruth Gonzalez
Wednesday 8 July, 18:00 | free entry | main language: English, Catalan
We’re celebrating the launch of “Reflections on a Domestic Hair Salon” by Ruth Gonzalez, published by Page Not Found.

You are hereby invited for the launch on Wednesday 8 July at 18:00! For this special evening Ruth has invited Golnar Abbasi to join her.

“Reflections on a Domestic Hair Salon” takes as its starting point her own family’s domestic hair salon, a space she inhabited, witnessed transform, and inherited, to explore how the margins of the home become sites of labour, resistance, and female emancipation. Through this research, she proposes a reading of domestic space in which the woman’s body is simultaneously tool, archive, and method.

The publication was designed by the artist with additional elements developed by Bart de Baets.

Ruth Gonzalez is an interior designer and spatial researcher with a critical and feminist perspective on the built environment. Her work sits at the intersection of spatial design and critical theory, examining how domestic environments encode gender, labour, and social dynamics.

Golnar Abbasi is an architect/artist, researcher, curator and publisher based in Rotterdam whose work focuses on the politics of domesticity, anti-colonial space, and practices of resistance. She is a co-founder of Rotterdam-based collective WORKNOT! and an educator at Piet Zwart Institute and Willem de Kooning Academie.