SIMULACRO
Simulacro explores urban solitude and individual consumption through photographs of hyper-realistic silicone dolls, questioning the boundaries between human presence, objectification, and simulation.
Amid vending machines, illuminated shop windows and packaged goods, Simulacro portrays a landscape where immediate gratification reshapes the ways relationships are experienced.
The series emerges from long-term research into Japanese culture, initiated during a period living in Tokyo in 1999. Years later, returning to the country in 2011, the work observes a context marked by increasing urban solitude and a highly developed economy of individual consumption.
Within this same ecosystem appear hyper-realistic silicone dolls, female figures conceived as substitute companions and designed to offer a presence without alterity. Like the products available in vending machines, these bodies present themselves as objects accessible on demand, embedded in a logic of solitary consumption that intensifies the objectification of women.
Photographed through the visual language of portraiture, with dark backgrounds, controlled lighting and frontal compositions, these figures generate a tension between realism and simulation. Seen today, the series reveals an almost premonitory dimension, anticipating a contemporary scenario in which technologies and simulacra increasingly occupy the space of human relationships.
