Revolver Dolls is a mixed visual project with final photographic format where Iapproach systematically various topics using dolls (mostly Barbies) as protagonists. I choose a compositional method as a film set, where locations are scenographically made, cameras prepared, lights, space available as a stage and the correlation of the sequences is projected in shots. This method is familiar for me as I was trained as a filmmaker and this allows me to explore the use of Barbies instead of actors or models.  Working with dolls in condition of characters which assume several roles, ended up having its own entity and visual language. 

As a working method, in the first instance I prepare a story board and then a camera set for putting the dolls in space and any element that accompanies the scene. Sometimes I photograph some dolls alone on a green background (Chroma key), and finally on scene but set as simple as possible to allow me to work those photos later, isolated on depth post production. This way I can edit an aesthetic close to dream, the unreal and the many possibilities arising from a free basis set with multiple creative changes. I used real scenes rarely seeking greater naturalism but rather an artificial stage set that allows a surreal air can cause feeling of dislocation , confusion or alienation to achieve a more visually powerful and extreme aesthetics.

One of my main goals is to provide life to dolls, closer to the human from poses and behaviors portrayed, lead identification by the viewer without unintentionally deface the entire boundary between the plastic and reality.
As a child it was a sort of collector and had begun to design dressed to my dolls, write them scripts to represent. I saw them as endless universe for creation. But even then something disturbed me: the more real they look, never really going to have life. Hence arises a kind of goal, “to give them a soul” through art. Here is the paradox of immortality, one of the mains thematic axis of this project, beyond their particular changing stories in each series. Each session shares with some other key issues such as social hypocrisy, depersonalization, rootlessness and identity. But the theme that articulates and moves Revolver Dolls is the thin line between the dead and the living, the finiteness of the actual human figure facing the immortality of a doll. Hence the choice of the noun “revolver” (roll, round, life-death- life-death, ” Do again (RE) turn = volver in Spanish “). That doll that imitates an everyday-life character, is a fragment of one’s existence as a parody, it is not really alive but transcend any of us after death. I often like to take this statement as a kind of joke although there is no joke in the dispute of the finitude of human existence and the meaning of things.

Show runs from November 7th – 28th