Tenderness Sewn with Scars
With Voodoo Dolls Series, Lannïck Dinard twists childhood symbols to reveal realities that are more complex, darker, yet always deeply human. Patched-up stuffed toys, extinguished gazes, stitched limbs, and threatening pins: each figure in this series evokes a battered softness, a vulnerability that someone has tried to hold together with sutures.
These dolls are anything but innocent — or perhaps they lost that innocence along the way. They tell of shocks, of absence, of silent anger. But also of resilience. For even wounded, they endure. They still look back. They remain.
Through a raw black-and-white style, with an almost surgical sense of detail, Dinard creates a dialogue between symbolic violence and visual tenderness. The result: a series that touches, unsettles, makes one smile… or shiver.
Voodoo Dolls is a universe both cruel and endearing, like a nursery rhyme one no longer dares to sing out loud.
