Nanas

In the richest neighborhoods of Santiago (Chile) a lot of families have an housekeeper. Generally these women live in the same houses of those families, usually in small and modest rooms. Often they come from other countries (Peru, Bolivia, Haiti, etc) or other chilean provinces, leaving their own life, to do every kind of domestic work - baby-sitting, dog-sitting, coocking, cleaning, even psychological support. - Their existence is transformed in order to satisfy the needs of other people, other families, other houses. These women are generally knows as “nanas”. With this project I would like to show the existence - essential but almost invisible at the same time - of these women, in the daily life of their job, representing the spaces where they spend their time. Private neighborhoods, boundaries, huge houses, empty spaces, clean and order, and subjectivity in crisis. At the end, all these spaces are like a small world, a reflection of social rules and power relationships, where the same house loses his significance of intimacy and private space, to became a non-place.