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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Two: Travel Incongruities > Interchangeable faces, Rabat, Morocco, 2006
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13-DEC-2006

Interchangeable faces, Rabat, Morocco, 2006

I spotted this mannequin staring vacantly at nothing in Rabat’s busy old city market. I noticed that a lace hanging from a shoe displayed next to its face created a vertical line between the cheek and temple, and the shadow of that a shoelace created another line across the neck. Seen together, these lines imply that the face could be removable and replaceable. Another face floats among the clothing to its left – almost as if it could be swapped out as a substitute face for this mannequin. The concept of interchangeable faces is an incongruous one, and it can be extended to life itself as a comment on the temporary masks we create to hide behind in our daily lives.

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