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This is indeed life itself!

Edgar Allan Poe
«The Oval Portrait»


Po_otoreto (from the Japanese pootoreeto -portrait) is a project dedicated to the creation of living portraits: small articulated figures that reinterpret the physical and psychological identity of a person. Each doll-portrait is a unique piece, entirely handmade.

The project takes and resignifies both the European tradition of portraiture and the logic of psychoanalysis; and, from Japan, the animist belief, craft practices and the creation of dolls for the adult world. At the same time, it is proposed as an artistic reinterpretation of the self, through the gestation of the dolls and the interaction between dolls and portrayed, thus actively linking creator, portrait and portrayed in a joint creative action.

Po_otoreto thus investigates the link between humans and dolls, both from the role of the creator - craft techniques, relationship between maker and doll, marketing circuits - and the user - traditional and contemporary uses, affective relationship with the doll, joint sociability, accessories and creative customization over time.

Po_otoretos are ambiguous objects that dissolve historically opposed distinctions in the West, such as art-craft, matter-spirit, object-subject, past-present, thus generating new means of creation.



head


(doll & portrait universe)






FILMS


featuring dolls and portraits



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Pinocchio, film by Walt Disney, based on the book by Carlo Collodi. Pinocchio: The Series, animé by Tatsunoko. Thunderbirds, by Gerry Anderson & Sylvia Anderson The doll master, Yong-ki Jeong Jabberwocky, Jan Svankmajer Stingray, Gerry Anderson Magic, Richard Attenborough Universum, Quay Brothers Thunderbirds: behind the scenes Puppet Master, David Schmoeller Dolls, Stuart Gordon The fall of the house of Usher, Jean Epstein Being John Malkovich, Spike Jonze Alice, Jan Svankmajer The haunted painting, documentary film project directed by Gregg Gibbs The miniaturist, series based on the novel by Jessie Burton. Child’s Play, Tom Holland Amazing stories, The Doll Dorian Gray, Oliver Parker Edgard Bergen and Charly McCarthy comedy shorts A Gottle of Gear, ventriloquism history, Ray Alan documentary Ray Alan with "Lord Charles" - World's Greatest Ventriloquist - 1986 Look Who's Laughing (1941), Allan Dwan. Where are you, buddy? Documentary by Alejandro Maly Anabelle Muñecos del destino, by Rosalba Mirabella La casa Lobo - The wolf house, Joaquín Cociña & Cristobal León Lars and the Real Girl, Craig Gillespie The great Gabbo, (1929) ERICH VON STROHEIM El show de Cumulo&Nimbo The Boy, William Brent Bell Los Huesos, Joaquín Cociña & Cristóbal León Barbie también puede estar triste, Albertina Carri Plastic Semiotic, Radu Jude




GAMES




Spooky doll creator, Rinmaru games Haunted portrait creator, Rinmaru games




MUSIC


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Plasticine figures, Thom Yorke The sick Doll, Tchaikovsky Creepy Doll Music The Doll's Song, Offenbach Gothic Doll The doll's funeral, Tchaikovsky Funeral march of a marionette, Gounod




BOOKS


featuring dolls and portraits




The adventures of Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi The steadfast tin soldier, Hans Christian Andersen The Artus Hof, E.T.A. Hoffmann The Midnight Folk, Masefield, John The picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde The unknown masterpiece, Honoré de Balzac The doll master, Joyce Carol Oates The oval portrait, Edgar Allan Poe The Doll Collection: Seventeen Brand-New Tales of Dolls, Ellen Datlow La Veneziana, Vladimir Nabokov La muñeca reina, Carlos Fuentes La divina proporción, Esther Cross Galería Fantástica, María Negroni The youngest doll, Rosario Ferré Las Hortensias, Felisberto Hernández The miniaturist, Jessie Burton Killing Commendatore, Haruki Murakami Folk religion in Japan. Continuity and change, Ichira Hori The Buddha in the Robot, Masahiro Mori Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters, Ō no Yasumaro Enciclopedia of Shinto Learning To Be A Doll Artist, Martha Armstrong-Hand Klara and the sun, Katzuo Ishiguro Voodoo Dolls in Magick and Ritual, Denise Alvarado Yoshida Style Ball Jointed Doll Making Guide I, Ryo Yoshida August Eschenburg, Steven Millhauser Yoshida Style Ball Jointed Doll Making Guide II, Ryo Yoshida Ventrílocuos, Daniel Riera Creating Original Porcelain Dolls: Modeling, Molding and Painting, Hildegard Günzel La conspiración contra la especie humana, Thomas Ligotti The knife thrower, Steven Millhauser The curfew, Jesse Ball





 DOLLS
and the supernatural




Top 10 haunted dolls moving on camera! Top 7 creepy dolls Top 10 haunted dolls in real life! Scary dolls Family has collection of haunted dolls Proof that spirits can live in dolls Supernatural dolls cause a stir in Thailand The dark legend of the island of hanging dolls in Mexico Inside The Eerie World Of Child Dolls In Thailand OKIKU doll






CRAZY ABOUT DOLLS


The doll clinic of Dr. Julio Roldán La ex modelo de los 80 convertida en "Abuela Barbie" recrea la vida con mini muñecas Mysterious Town Where Realistic Dolls Outnumber Humans (Nagoro, Japan) Chasman & Chirolita


DOLL ARTISTS


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Top Ten Doll Artists Doll artist Mari Shimizu, Japan Doll artist Ryo Yoshida, Japan Doll artist Igeta Hiroko, japan Doll artist Hanano Yuuichi, Japan Doll artist Michael Zajkov, Russia Doll artists Popovy sisters, Russia Morton Barlett






JAPANESE DOLLS


yesterday & today


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IKI NINGYO – living dolls Hina Dolls Bunraku puppets Karakuri Ningyo, mechanical dolls musha dolls Gosho dolls Hakata dolls Ichimatsu dolls contemporary BJD artdoll by Igeta Hiroko contemporary BJD artdoll by Simon Yotsuya contemporary BJD artdoll by Mari Shimizu contemporary BJD artdoll by Ryo Yoshida




HAUNTED PORTRAITS


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The Curse of the Crying Boy The Gladys Portrait - UK's Most Haunted Painting - Movement Captured Haunted portraits The bizarre story behind “The Hands Resist Him”, the internet's most haunted painting – The Telegraph




NEWS


featuring dolls and portraits


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portrait of a killer Russian grave robber made dolls from girls corpses Ningyo kuyo: A Japanese doll funeral Thomas Edison's creepy invention: The Talking Doll Woman married to Zombie Doll In love with a doll Man who's engaged to rag doll announces she's 'given birth' to their third child













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DOLLS
2019-2024





(click on image to acces the complete catalogue)




VIDEOS
2019-2023




Ian
Video monocanal
Size: variable
Duration: 4’45’’ min
Year: 2022
Made in collaboration with Lihuel González

Link: https://youtu.be/SEsUx8EptSU





Kiki
Video monocanal
Size: variable
Duration: 3 min
Year: 2022
Made in collaboration with Lihuel González

Link: https://youtu.be/4VMrlOAYMBY




Mami
 Video monocanal
Size: variable
Duration: 3 min
Year: 2022
Made in collaboration with Lihuel González

Link: https://youtu.be/b2G27IkH9cA



Ayelén (autorretrato)
Video monocanal
Size: variable
Duration: 7 min
Year: 2022
Made in collaboration with Lihuel González




Lihuel
Video monocanal
Size: variable 
Duration: 1 min
Year: 2022
Made in collaboration with Lihuel González
Link: https://youtu.be/uQ7EtafPi8o

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Dolls
2019-2024


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I.L


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I.L
2020
Materials: stone clay body (LaDoll), resin eyes, acrylics, textiles.Size: 30 cm.