A silent figure reflecting the self we leave behind.
The dummy is born in silence.
She stands in the shop window, suspended between two worlds: the one inside, where everything is fixed, and the one outside, where everything moves. Trapped in the “window” of her existence, confined to a form with no possibility of escape. A puppet. A human likeness. A body without will, a face without a voice, a presence that exists only to be seen. She is placed at the forefront, she sees everyone and everyone sees her, yet she remains distant from the rest of the world. And yet, through the glass, she begins to reflect us.
In the city’s reflections, in the multiple surfaces and her doubled images, the dummy transforms: she becomes our silent shadow, the self that stands still while the world rushes on. A mirror of human alienation. “The doll was born at dawn, when man first saw his shadow and discovered that he was both himself and his other self” Javier Villafane said. Dummy’s Silence is a wandering between the real and the artificial.
A story of entrapment and observation, a moment in which the shop window becomes a stage and the dummy becomes the protagonist of the most human of silences. The stark contrasts, the artificial light, the reflections, the textures, and the layered surfaces create scenographic compositions in which the viewers does not merely look at the doll, but is compelled to see themselves as well. It is a narrative that moves between dream and reality, where the inanimate seems, for a moment, to breathe, and silence acquires its own voice.