Sculpture
“Peps’n’Dolls” is the name I gave to the alternative, imaginary world I created for my sculptures, my Mummies, as I use to call them. It is the expression of the close bond I have with them. These sculptures represent bodies wrapped in bandages: anthropomorphic figurines, expressing human feelings only by the use of their body language. The idea of the bandages and the impossibility to show a facial expression or a hand gesture, is highly autobiographical. Our body ends to talk on our behalf… sometimes. Often my Mummies have no gender or no perfect proportions. They are just bodies. Nothing more than bodies with a soul. As most of the sculptures bandages, in the first years, were made of used bicycle inner tubes, people started to call them “Rubber Dolls”. Since I didn’t work exclusively with rubber and not knowing how long my Mummies would have kept the bandages on, I decided to keep only “Dolls” as a nickname… and “Peps’n’Dolls”, in the years, became their official brand.
