This exhibition, titled From her wooden sleep…, uses her collection of 150 wooden artist's mannequins to create an uncanny symposium of mute human stand-ins.
He had seen a theatre performance in Avignon that used video projections and blank mannequin faces to create a similar illusion, so he approached Denis Marleau and Stéphanie Jasmin, the directors of the experimental theatre company Ubu, and together they created thirty-two animated mannequins that talk, wink, smile, and sigh.
Mr. Swanepoel enlisted fashion friends to create mannequins for his limited-edition creations.
Set in a what looks like a treacherous, steeply receding bunker in a culture of brutal beheadings and Abu Ghraib-style reprisals, this arresting modern-dress Macbeth is a deliberately disconcerting mixture of dance-deconstruction (the witches in flesh-coloured leotards are a dominant presence -- like cat-walk mannequins with a mission to create conditions for maximum evil) and cropped text.
Helmut Newton has collaborated with mannequin manufacturers since the 1960s to create "twins" for live models, used with or instead of live models.
Yeohlee Teng, one of the designers who has lead a campaign to preserve what remains, symbolically used materials found in old factories from the area to create a mannequin encased in bricks.
BBC News went to see some of the old-fashioned techniques, still used to create the mannequins of today.
In total, the artist worked with 147 children and young people, using a wooden mannequin and an array of materials to create a visual "story" or picture that was then photographed.
In this case, it says he's schizoid right on the box, implying that schizoid people are more capable of scalping women to create a fantasy mannequin that looks like their dead-prostitute mothers.
Dr Willis said the goal with the robot, which he described as "much more realistic" than a 10-year-old mannequin that had been in use, was to create suits that strike a balance between protection and physiological burden.
