THIS BABY DOLL WILL BE A JUNKIE is an audiovisual portrait of women drug addicts living in Europe. The artwork consists of several series of identical dolls that narrate decisive events in the life of a drug addict. Each series represents a single biography.
The dolls are porcelain casts of dolls used traditionally as toys, with moveable arms and legs. Printed on each doll’s face is a portrait photo of an addict, so that the facial expression of the baby doll merges into that of an adult.
When the doll is picked up, it relates a significant event in the addict’s life, through a built-in speaker. The sound is transmitted through a perforated text on the doll’s back, which gives the addict’s name and date of birth, and in some cases the date of her death.
The series will be installed in the public space, in places frequented by addicts, and then abandoned to the public without any form of control.
Each doll has a wrist label giving the title of the artwork and the URL of this website.