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Chez jolie coiffure
2018
Synopsis
In a tiny hair salon in Brussels’ Matonge district, Sabine braids, glues lashes, and runs a business that doubles as a gathering place for West African women. Over the course of a year, daily work, conversations, and shared concerns unfold inside this space.
Editorial
Finding unique formal constraints in the mirrored confines of the titular salon, Chez Jolie Coiffure brushes through the rhythms of hairdressing: from speedy dexterity to sporadic lulls. Observing—but catching up with her charismatic subject too—Rosine Mbakam detangles the social life of the trade.
