untitled images from the series
"Leading Ladies" and "Carnevale
at the Hotel of the Bridge of Sighs"

Self-portrait Since 1993, I have been photographing Barbie dolls that I buy in second-hand stores. Usually their hair is cut off, and often their feet and hands have been chewed on. It is obvious that they have had interesting lives before I come across them.

In our society these figures are loaded with meaning, but in my work they are also personalities who exist as bodies and souls around which I weave narratives. Thus my photographs revolve around the interaction of the known (society), the unknown (the anima of the dolls) and the imagined.

— Gabrielle de Montmollin

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