Christina Dallas, USA The images of Ms. Dallas are to be seen as found relics from an imagined abandoned portrait studio, a lost archive of reposed survivors. This series of tableaus composed from dolls, are portraits of children in their bedrooms, drawing rooms and observation rooms. The models, girls only, have cloth bodies and photographic faces. They are a lost memory, a reflection of an unreached utopia. They are our future faces, or rather - our masks. These female characters explore aspects of one-self and become reflections of the psychological and psychic complexities that live within us, from childhood and onto our adult lives. The presented scenes portray the dichotomies between our past and present that exist within our memories - memories that shield and expose our triumphs and traumas, soul and self-sacrifice. |