Lucid Dream (from the Doppelgänger series)

In Lucid Dream from the Doppelgänger series, Lale Tara places a doll in various abandoned spaces, transporting us into an intimate, private, often threatening world. The doll is placed into different, sometimes startlingly lifelike positions, variously vulnerable and strong. While it is easy to read these works as a reflection on women's role in society (and perhaps even in terms of an ongoing power struggle between sexes), Tara's subject is ultimately mute and pliable, and reflects the artist's desires and commands. We are left wondering who we really see in these images.
Lale Tara places dolls in front of the camera, which in turn become self-representations, and lets the fictions tell their own stories, instead of directing them to a certain end.