Barbie Objects
2019
Photograph, framed pigment print
50cm x 50cm
The series of photographs presents a set of plastic Barbie toys from the 1990s. Its emphasis is on the golden scale, which might be seen as a neutral and realistic part of Barbie’s bathroom set. But it is an eerie idea that a Barbie doll, representing the beauty ideals of its time, would need to weigh herself on a scale. The mere existence of the scale hints that weighing and weight control could have a place in a child’s play.