Neckar Doll

Neckar Doll (b. 1995, Mulhouse, France, lives and works in Paris, France) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans sculpture, video, and installation. Rooted in an intuitive, materially driven approach, his work explores the anarchic transmission of cultural images and objects, between so-called high and low culture, historical memory and mass media, the sacred and the profane. Through reappropriation and juxtaposition, Doll weaves disparate elements into layered compositions that collapse boundaries and provoke unexpected connections.

Often assembling his works from found objects, industrial remnants, and personal relics, Doll draws on an eclectic visual vocabulary: 1990s toys, military memorabilia, motocross equipment, medieval references, scientific diagrams, and digital detritus. He favors contradiction and collision over cohesion, crafting surreal tableaux where each object carries its own embedded history, reframed within new symbolic contexts. His process is instinctive and improvisational, a choreography of form, meaning, and affect.

Doll treats cultural references not as fixed symbols, but as fluid tools, sampling and reconfiguring them to explore how meaning circulates across time, space, and genre. His installations and videos function like mise-en-scènes, where objects become protagonists in narratives that are simultaneously personal, political, and mythological.

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