Nail Studio (2025)
Nail Studio takes the shape of a pop-up nail salon. Weaving
together lineages of expansive fashion and beauty practice with the
teachings of spiritual- and end-of-life care, Nellie uses the time-space
of a manicure to hold open, one-on-one conversations about change.
Changing bodies, changing weather, changing worlds, changing plans. How
do we love that which is irrevocably changing? Nail Studio is an invitation to
collaboratively explore the familiar yet expansive ritual of a manicure
as a means of tending to our bodies, as we tend to the changes our world
is asking of us.
This work has been presented at Unit/Pitt (Vancouver), Lake Studios (Berlin), as well as in homes across Vancouver and Berlin.
Photos: Nellie Gossen and Dušana Baltić
This work has been presented at Unit/Pitt (Vancouver), Lake Studios (Berlin), as well as in homes across Vancouver and Berlin.
Photos: Nellie Gossen and Dušana Baltić
