In a neoliberal economy, the exchange of money represents a fluid infrastructure, which can appear impossible to grasp. Constituting itself in-between the non-physical and official sphere of money, the unofficial trading is rife with symbolic contradictions.

Described as amateur currency speculators, The FX Beauties are challenging the traditional position of Japanese women in an introverted country dominated by established conventions of gendered domesticity, hegemonic financial environments and historically-determined expectations for behavior.

The FX Beauties suggests an architecture that reflects and celebrates the shifting position of the women working within a self governed and decentralized network. With an anonymous role in a genderless system of constant fluctuation, the women question the limitations of the home. In the search for a potential higher return, they are reproducing their domestic realm by challenging the established link between capital and space.