
Broken Dolls II
- Publisher
- Baron Books
- Year
- 2025
- Specifications
- Hardback
33 x 22 cm
80 pages
Printed red edges with curved corners
Rubber details
Essay by Olivia Rowe
A revival of Romain Slocombe's photographic series in which the artist staged and documented subjects in medical fetish attire: bandaged and swaddled in gauze, wearing eye patches, casts and neck braces. Shot between 1992 and 2018 in hospital wards, hotel rooms, trains and streets across Tokyo and Paris, the black-and-white and colour photographs sit alongside illustrations by the artist. First subtitled A Medical Art Diary, the series explores Slocombe's aesthetic and personal interest in the world of medical wear. What matters to him is the performance, the role-playing and the visual quality of the wrapping rather than any prospect of actual injury, and in his monochromatic film world the white bandages glow as a hypnotic focal point, bringing out a softness that suggests tenderness and care. The book includes an essay by Olivia Rowe.