Louisa Clement's ‘Dolls’.

Reproduced Bodies Between Virtuality and Reality

Abstract

Sex dolls with AI (artificial intelligence), candy colored avatars and photographed (shop window) dolls: In Louisa Clement's works the doll appears in different shapes as a central motif for questioning the human body in digital contexts. Fragmented, anonymized, and almost dehumanized, dolls, avatars, or seemingly lifelike reproductions of the artist's body confront viewers. The absence of the physical body, which is suggested in the dolls as representatives, leads to a tense interplay between virtuality and reality.