Tiny plastic figures

Artists such as Vincent bousserez, Slinkachu and Willy Rojas use tiny plastic figures carrying out day to day activities photographed. Everything is the wrong way round, not to scale, replacing real life sized people. Each photo becomes poetic and humoristic screenplay. The work itself is outside of the art gallery but captured to produce photography to display in an gallery space. It is as if the work itself, is primary source because it is actually their in the outside environment where as the gallery only can convey secondary source photographic evidence of the work existing. The figures are placed in ordinary everyday situations outside gallery but does this mean that the art is less recognised? Or do the photos degrade the piece of work?


Vincent Bousserez













Slinkachu








Slinkachu- Whats interesting about his photography is that some of the photographs are close ups of the figures, while others are a step back revealing the small scale compared to the real size objects surrounding. Some of the photos captured are in focus while the background is blurred out. Then when you see the photos revealing the background it is only then when you realise how small they are and how they could easily be obscured.


Willy Rojas









Rojas now works and lives in Barcelona where he specializes in very accessible photography; colourful, bright and humouristic. Little miniature figures, posing in the world of fruit 'n veg . For a moment you're actually convinced that there's probably nothing more there. Just an optimistic scenery that provokes a smile. Pleasing to the eye for a moment and then it's gone. Rojas has a skilled eye for composition and definitely knows how to show it through his photograph. His pictures bizarrely capture little things in life without trying too hard, as if it's his way of showing what he's thinking and how his mind works. This a playful response using a necessity like food to demonstrate everyday activities performed by the plastic figures. The food is almost 'played with', contaminated and tampered by small figures. An aspect of life which is portrayed as great importance is used as a 'prop' for his photography, taking away the function of food itself. Rojas defies the normality as he places foreign objects in the food, almost breaking the rules by manipulation. As children, we are told not to mess with our food and eat it all up, for an adult to perform childish behaviour like this is contrary to what is expected. In his photography, Rojas conveys a sense rebellion; as if because it is his own food, he can choose what he wants to do with it. It could be said that he feels that he can step over the boundaries due to his form of status reaching adulthood. Food has its own value and status, its there for our survival, having this privilege and taking advantage by wasting it is not something you would use for art if you was less fortunate.