"After the performance..."
Lefteris Plavos' Photography exhibition
The “Ugly duckling” and the “Tzitzimitzihotziria” by the Puppetry workshop of the “Porforogenio” Institution (Agria, Pelion) "The moment of transformation imprinted by the photographic lens" Well... Puppetry! Figures in black background and a bright darkness full of colours and life! But what's after the performance? Images of the items - protagonists' return to the "fleeting" a moment before they go back in the boxes and the darkness. Whatever the showed, whatever they did, whatever they said, intrudes now in the inextinguishable world of spectator's feelings like a memory, and dream in a magic world where everything is possible! The photographer is searching for the puppet's "being" and "ego", as those two are shown unspoiled and guileless through kids' creations, sometimes as a portrait and sometimes as a strictly selected picture frame. Photographs point out the creations' details, reflecting the puppet's "hidden" glance and soul and they make every puppet unique and self-existing. All these are presented through the world's manifold mosaic while, at the same time, puppets are looking straight at the spectator's eyes in order to motivate him make an introspection