The exhibition, opened in December 2004, was promoted by the National Photography Centre of the Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali of Padua. It presented a research about dummies and was born in the early 1980s. It consisted of coloured photographies, as evidence of the evolution of costumes and new aesthetic rules.

According to Prof. Peter Weiermair, the art critic, "Valentini has found two interesting approaches to this subject, that are at the same time topical and innovative.

On the one hand he analyses dummies' look suggested by fashion, with erotic shades too. These works are part of a systematic photographic activity interested in fixing images of an age, keeping them for the future.

On the other hand, the sequence of complex urban images is glamorous. Not only does Valentini mix artificial men with real ones, the exterior of the street with walking people, and the interior of the shop windows, but he also causes, with the involvement of reflections and by them, a sharpening of the experience that has as object the degree of reality of the image reproduced.

The photographer catches moving people, unmoving dummies, but also reflections that intersect within his photographies. The conceptual power of this photography is right in the game played within it".

The exhibition was accompanied by a catalogue, belonging to the series of National Photography Centre books.