Barbie Fury

Each image of this series uncovers an eccentric and humorous universe, using different hues and themes, but keeping a fixed composition: a table, a desk pad, a Barbie and a model. My primary goal is to obtain a visually joyful and pop-art series: in the earliest stages, I imagined an exhibition where all the photos would be displayed in the same room and would catch the spectator in a whirlwind of colors with images taken from fashion shoots. I want to make people laugh, with stages both playful and graphical, and startle with a bright result. In each photo, the model (a beautiful woman) takes on a Barbie doll, and beyond the object, takes on the very symbol of the perfect woman, hence the perception of the model as a concept itself. But if the beautiful woman keeps breaking the overall perception and role of beautiful women, meaning her own image, she stays beautiful in this process in a photo that displays her beauty. I want to play with a double-mirror effect: the woman falls into the trap of images and perceptions. The underlying meaning of each image collides with the first impressions the photo provokes, because it would be hypocritical to deny this simple fact: the beauty of the women depicted in this series is part of the interest it triggers. The beautiful woman breaks the beautiful woman’s image, but she stays along the way imprisoned, by me the photographer and by the spectators, in her image, her role of a beautiful woman.