It takes a minute once you walk into the Gaultier show at the De Young Museum, to figure out whether the mannequins are alive or not. Their eyes seem to follow you, they open and close their mouths, heck they even address you directly. But they are too still, some of the faces seem to repeat, and there is just something well, off.
The revelation that the mannequins do not, in fact, have a soul and are simply projections, do nothing to diminish their impact. They make the clothes literally come alive, with a power akin to performance art. Below are my photographs of the show, as you can see, they look like Wagnerian Opera figures, fleshy but not of this world.
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Almost... alive.
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