February 11, 2011
THEO PELMUS
Vernissage: Friday February 11, 2011 / 7-10pm
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Poor Pinocchio! Always being transformed, deformed, reformed through the eyes and performance art of Theo Pelmus. This installment and new trajectory of Performing Pinocchio is photo based, constructing scenes that allow the viewer to interpret according to their own experiences. Even this show statement is merely a construction of my own self projections onto little Pinocchio, sometimes whole, sometimes dismembered, but always wondering what is. – Christina Anastassopoulos, 2011
Artist Statement:
This photo-project represents the traces of performing with the Pinocchio doll. Pinocchio is a container of identity. He is there for the viewer to create his/hers own story. Pinocchio is removed from the classical story and becomes an archetype of conscience; he is unable to understand why it is a doll: Why am I assembled and disassembled continuously?
Pinocchio as identity’s representative mirrors the representation that us as viewers want to receive. It is not that the message is fabricated by the viewer but is read through our temptation of fitting the gesture in a specific type of signature that is constructed by the matrix that we are part of. This is Pinocchio struggle in MY Story. He does not understand why he cannot comply with the norm? And trying to conform to the norm it becomes grotesque but beautiful in the same time. He plunges into the abject. Pinocchio is radically performed; deconstructed; constructed. -Theo Pelmus, 2010
