OVERVIEW
"Barbie at war" is a conceptual visual series that places Barbie dolls inside moments of everyday life during wartime in Israel.
Familiar scenes — stairwells, shelters, supermarkets, apartments — are reconstructed with hyper-real environments and artificial characters.
The result sits between fiction and documentation, exposing the surreal nature of routine under crisis.
THE IDEA
What if war wasn’t dramatic —
but routine?
Instead of soldiers or destruction, the project focuses on small, mundane moments:
waiting in a stairwell
sitting in a shelter
shopping during shortages
waking up from alerts
Barbie becomes the protagonist.
Perfect. Plastic. Emotionless.
Placed inside a reality that is anything but.
