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Alain Delorme, French artist/ photographer, introduces a photographic series named Little dolls. This interestingly disturbing series is bursting with ideas, inspired by the work of artists such as Aziz + Cucher. The techno color series of 21 small girls is reminiscent of a creepy, yet beautiful pageant Barbie look. It carries with it an ironic and worrying glance on the identification of the girls to the Western female stereotypes. In the images of Delorme, the mixture between innocent youth and commercial object denounces the standardization and the constraint of the bodies, the smiles, the glances. At the same time, Little Dolls open the way with a possible and worrying future where the child, at the price of plastic transformations, is likely to become a true object, handy and transformable with a wish…..