“We invest in objects all that we find impossible to invest in other people.” — Jean Baudrillard

What kinds of objects deserve our care?

Dolls, robots, mannequins, and prosthetic bodies occupy an uncertain space between object and companion. Throughout history these artificial human figures have served as toys, research tools, devotional objects, stand-ins, and technological experiments. Their design shapes not only how we perceive them, but also how we relate to them.

Bringing these figures together in unexpected contexts, this exhibition explores the emotional, ethical, and cultural relationships we form with artificial bodies. Why does a doll that moves feel unsettling, while a motionless robot feels incomplete? Why should neither become too human? These contradictions expose the shifting boundaries between person and object, empathy and discomfort, imagination and reality.

As artificial companions become increasingly present in everyday life, the exhibition invites viewers to consider not only how we have learned to care for these figures, but also what forms that care, and those relationships, might take in the future.