La Petite Mort Gallery presents...

ONE NIGHT ONLY EXHIBIT
THEO PELMUS
PERFORMING PINOCCHIO

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

Thank you,
Christina Anastassopoulos, art consiglieri
La Petite Mort Gallery
306 Cumberland St
Ottawa, ON K1N 7H9
www.lapetitemortgallery.com