The Dummies project presents around 30 photographs produced over the period between 2010 and 2014 and shot while travelling in different European countries.

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Ephemeral but yet disturbing. Grotesque but yet mysterious. Mere industrial artifact and commercial support by definition whose non-existing artistic ambition and distance from any possible cultural sphere make them impermeable to any esthetic judgment. Unwarily desperate beings, lifeless outcasts, symbols and reflections of our emptiness and empty values.

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Representing men up to the point of empathizing with them and unwarily impersonate them with the result of ridicule, mock and commercialize them as well.

 

Motionless, cold, stubbornly indifferent to our absent-minded glances in a game of mutual blindness. Deprived by the lack of awareness of their right of frustration for not having any control neither on the surrounding circumstances nor on the only elements that justify their existence: clothes belonging to no one yet.

 

But they do indeed exist and mirror better than anything else the personality of their owners and of their audience: their sense of humor, their sense of style, their sense for estheticism, their fears, their phantasies and their vulgarity. They are what we think we are or better what we would like to be.

 

Ultimately and paradoxically, their only deeply fascinating feature is represented by the fact of not possessing any obvious element of interest