Artist/Videographer Loïc Jugue is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of this photo essay. From the project ‘The Broken Toys’. To see Loïc ’s body of work, click on any image.

My Broken toys are an artistic work, available in multiple forms: videos, sculptures, installations and photographs.

They are created from used toys, often abandoned, that I am given or that I buy at flea markets or at Emmaüs, and on which I make a number of transformations, under the action of fire or other destructive processes.

What fascinates me in these burnt dolls… is the detail of the material, the carbonized plastic or simply modified by the action of heat. Deep blacks, wrinkles and crevices, burnt caramel face, artificial hair that shrinks in the heat. Body hollowing out, deforming under the intensity of the flame…

These dolls undergo, through fire and other destructive actions, a sort of metamorphosis which takes them out of the world of childhood to go towards that of adults.

I tried to render these delicate materials with a special photographic technique called light painting, which allows me, in a way, to paint with light. A very special light, all in chiaroscuro, (a kind of homage to Caravaggio… ), which I use to highlight these toys… and make the modeling of the distorted material.

The Broken toys are sorts of mini-sketches where I use the toys like actors, moreover I film them like humans by putting the camera at their height. My Broken toys are dramas, but also satirical comedies, a bit creaky, dealing with many themes: philosophy, love, suffering, religion, death, pollution, etc.

My broken toys are at the same time playful, sarcastic and encourage a certain existential reflection…

Aren’t we those toys?

All images and text © Loïc Jugue

See also:

The Destructions

By Loïc Jugue

Loïc ’s Previous Contribution To Edge Of Humanity Magazine

The Beauty And The Horror Of Meat

Edge of Humanity Magazine’s

FREE Projects & Other Services

To Promote Works From Artists,

Photographers, Poets & Writers

COMMISSION FREE
CONTRACT FREE
online platform for artists to sell their creations

PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK, SHORT STORIES & MUSIC Recommendations

FREE Platform For Artists NO MIDDLEMAN ART GALLERY

In The Mind Of An Artist

Open Submissions for Writers & Poets

Photo Curator

PRESS RELEASE On Edge of Humanity Magazine

Photography Articles