February nights are not very warm in southern Finland. Plastic mannequins don’t freeze, but my fingers were quite numb when shooting this series.

I was doing a personal documentary project around relationships. It was basically a project of portraits. I searched, interviewed and shot portraits of people, most of whom had some not so happy experiences in their relationships. These conversations lead to a reflexion, asking questions and thinking about possible answers about dynamics of our relationships in general.

Sometimes it seemed they were (and still are) quite a tough game. Not always really about loving, caring, respecting, sharing. Sometimes they are more about dealing and agreement – selling and buying approval and self-esteem.

Shooting pics of shop windows selling us fashionable clothes, make-up, all kind of things that associate with this kind of objectification was one idea to visualize it. When view of window with mannequins wearing lingerie and reflection of logo from near-by shop hit my eyes, I thought the idea might work…