Dollhouse II presents doll fantasy photography explicitly positioning subject as personal doll—Bon's method of using human figures as toys within meticulously constructed imaginative dreamscape materializing past and present fantasies. This color work from 2012 demonstrates artist's approach: subject becomes vessel for story Bon creates, character from personal fantasy lexicon taking physical form through careful staging, costume, lighting. The photography fuses surrealism (human as doll), expressionism (theatrical emotional presence), hyperrealism (precise detail), transcending traditional photography boundaries. Dollhouse II represents dreams and fantasies where subjects lose autonomous identity becoming instead personal dolls inhabiting Bon's imaginative world—fantastical dreamy character from diverse tale taking body, fictional narrative materializing through photographic androgynous spiritual creation. The work invites viewers into realm where human subjects function as manipulable figures within artist's dreamscape, dollhouse suggesting contained universe where Bon controls narrative.
Dreams and fantasies from the past and present are portrayed by Léa Bon’s subjects, which she uses as her own personal dolls.
Doll fantasy photography portraying subject as personal toy in dreamscape—human figure becoming doll character. Dollhouse II from Dreams and Fantasies by Léa Bon. Available at The Art Design Project, Miami Beach.
Doll Fantasy Photography – Dollhouse II, 2012 by Léa Bon
Dollhouse, 2012
From the Series Dream and Fantasies
Archival pigment print on glossy paper
Dimensions: 29.53 H x 19.68 W in.
Edition of 6 + 1AP
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered on artist label verso
Léa Bon is an androgynous fashion and art photographer, with a unique, personal and spiritual body of work. Dreams and fantasies from the past and present are portrayed by Léa Bon’s subjects, which she uses as her own personal dolls. At a young age, Léa Bon found in photography the means by which she could construct her own small worlds using her imagination. Her work breaks with the stereotypes of traditional photography and goes beyond the human eye; it is a fusion between art, fashion, and humanity, evoking surrealism, expressionism, and hyperrealism. She has done multiple exhibitions about her life, among them “First Cycle-Innocent Vision”, composed of 25 works of art that portray her personal journey. Her photographs have been published in numerous fashion and art magazines around the world.
