Mooremachines

Mooremachines are a series of mechanical sculptures created by American artist Ellen Gallagher from 2004 to 2009. The largest of these installations was first exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York in 2005. This large- scale work consists of hundreds of hand-painted and accessorized doll heads mounted on pedestals.

Mooremachines reflect on representations of race and beauty in early 20th-century advertisements and Hollywood productions. Gallagher used advertising and cultural clichés to critique visual tropes that were prevalent during the 1920s and 1930s. These depictions are rendered in deliberative, doll-like facades and photographic stills which mingle the murk and mystery with deteriorated scenes.

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