Face Of The Day

Patrick Morarescu snapped shots of performance artists:

Rather than photograph the performances, Morarescu focuses his lens on the artists right after they finish their shows, while they “still have the energy of creativity.”

“That feeling is what I want to capture in the portraits. It feels like you can still catch some traces of what happened in the performance some minutes before,” he said via email. … [W]hile he aims to evoke something of the performance in his photos, he wants viewers to see them as making unique artistic statements of their own.

“Performance art is a marginal form, one that normally happens in front of small audiences in alternative venues far from the mainstream. What makes it special is its temporal condition, the fact that this art form is destructed at the same moment that is created,” he said. “The results are ephemeral and any effort to document or register them become new products that are something different.”

See more of his work here.