24. avgust / 24th August
20.30 Galerija, Murska Sobota
8.30 p.m. Gallery, Murska
Sobota
vstop prost / free entrance
Odprtje festivala in razstave plesnih fotografij Mihe Frasa z naslovom Skriti jezik (SI)
Opening of the Festival and exhibition of dance photographs Hidden language by Miha Fras (SI)
Miha Fras je fotograf že več kot dvajset let. S fotografskim aparatom je vstopil na oder v svet uprizoritvenih umetnosti in se še posebej posvetil dokumentiranju plesnih prestav večine domačih sodobnih plesnih ustvarjalcev in plesni fotografiji. Je tudi dolgoletni fotoreporter Mladine, portretist revije Literatura, fotograf Mestne občine Ljubljana. Svoja avtorska dela razstavlja na samostojnih in skupinskih razstavah.
Avtor je tokratno razstavo naslovil "Skriti jezik" po citatu slavne ameriške koreografke Marthe Graham, da je »ples skriti jezik duše«.
Medtem ko so producenti za promocijo plesnih predstav velikokrat primorani medijem posredovati klasične dokumentarne fotografije, da jih bodo ti tudi objavili, pa ambicija fotografa ni v brezhibnem reproduciranju izvedenega giba, ampak ustvariti dobro plesno fotografijo – fotografijo, ki bo posredovala dinamiko, emocije in pomen skozi posebnosti, ki jih fotografski medij nudi. Fotografiranje plesa predstavlja fotografu poseben ustvarjalni izziv – kako preseči večni paradoks med plesom, ki je gibanje, in fotografijo, ki je negibna podoba – kako ujeti pravi trenutek, zaustaviti čas, razbrati skriti jezik duše, ki bo posredoval tisto »nekaj več«, kar bo za vedno ostalo zabeleženo na papirju, medtem ko ples izgine, ko je odplesan. Miha Fras je v izbor razstave umestil plesne fotografije iz različnih plesnih predstav, ki so nastale v obdobju dvajsetih let. V njih je iskal ta skriti jezik duše. Mnoge od njih niso bile nikoli objavljene.
Miha Fras has been a photographer for over twenty years. With his camera, he entered the stage and its world of performance art and devoted himself to documenting dance performances of the majority of Slovenian contemporary dance creators, and took up dance photography. He has been also a long-standing photojournalist of the magazine Mladina, portrait photographer of the magazine Literature and photographer for the City Municipality of Ljubljana. He has been displaying his author work at individual and group exhibitions.
The author called his current exhibition the “Hidden language” after the quote of the famous American choreographer Martha Graham, stating that “dance is the hidden language of the soul”.
Whereas the producers often have to submit classical documentary photographs for the promotion of dance performances to the media in order that they may get them published, a photographer’s ambition is not a flawless reproduction of the performed movement, but rather a creation of a good dance photograph – a photograph that will convey the dynamics, emotions and meaning through the special features offered by the photographic medium. Photographing dance represents a special creative challenge to the photographer: how to transcend the eternal paradox between dance, which is movement, and photograph, which is a motionless image; how to catch the right moment, stop the time and discern the hidden language of the soul in order to convey “something more” that will remain recorded on the paper forever, in contrast to the dance which will vanish once it has been danced.
Miha Fras decided to exhibit dance photographs from different dance performances that had been taken over the period of twenty years. In them he has looked for the hidden language of the soul. Many of the photographs have never been published before.
