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Human Dolls HD#∞

is an artistic project involving professional and non-professional actresses in a dynamic process of research and design, under the artistic and aesthetic direction of Federica Barcellona.
People not belonging to the world of show business or art, including a transgender woman, have nourished the journey to discover the hidden and personal intimacy of a social cross-section with naturalness as well as professionalism.
I further deepened the research with actresses, professional performers, women who daily train in the knowledge and expression of emotional states in their work.
This study starts from the real personal condition experienced in a state of emotional cage that does not allow, in such a state, the flow of existing in evolution.
It conveys in images the feeling of ‘being locked in an image’, assuming a pose, holding positions, taking on a role, not being able to be oneself, not being able to change, not being able to decide.
All this is unnatural and gives rise to grotesque forms.
Each of them dug into her personal experience, to offer a true picture that stimulates a living perception, capable of generating an active reflection, not always conscious, but certainly, sensorially dynamic, in the beholder.
In the performative journey, each has found a personal object that allows an opening, a sort of key to the constraint of that specific state.
A doll is a reproduction of a humanoid form, usually made of plastic or cloth, but also of wood, porcelain, biscuit, wax or human life.
 Some dolls are real toys, others have decorative or collector’s purposes and also have cultural meanings, such as a physical representation of divinity. 
Dolls are the oldest toy found so far, dating back to around 2000 BC.

Thanks to

Barbara Vitaliano, Elisabetta Quadrelli, Damiana Baratelli, Eva and professional actress Emanuela Rolla and model dancer Virginia Meirano.