I have been to two exhibitions recently and have enjoyed them both irrespective of the different aspects each of them was focussed on.
"Moments of Life" (a black and white photograph exhibition by the famous Czech photographer Jindrich Streit at Arquivo Fotografico de Lisboa until the 30th of March) is like an immersion into the rural life of the Czech Republic in the eighties, as most photographs were taken during that period in the villages Streit lived in throughout his childhood. Some "drag" us into the intimacy of the villagers' private life of affections, whilst some are "brutal" in the way certain elements "take over" the visual compositions.
There is a very interesting film "Between the Light and the Darkness/ Mezi svetlem a tmou" running on the first floor which complements the exhibition as it focusses on the life of the photographer and some of the characters he has exposed in his photographs.
Octopus by Philippe Découflé and the DCA the Dance Company is an amazingly unique dance/ music performance with nine majestic dancers on stage (Flavien Bernezet/ Alexandre Castres/ Meritxel Checa Esteban/ Ashley Chen/ Clémence Galliard/ Sean Patrick Mombruno/ Alexandra Naudet/ Aude Auffret) and two outstanding musicians (Pierre Le Bourgeois and Labyala Nosfell) playing live all throughout the performance.
If the coreography is enrichened by the games of light and darkness, the shapes of the dancers' movements projected on a screen, as seen from a different perspective from the one the audience was exposed to, Labyala's exquisite compositions and vocal range give it a different "touch" altogether. The musical performance was supposed to intermingle with the dance performance and create a balance ... and if that was true most of the time there were moments in which Labyala's voice "occupied" the whole imaginary space.
I had never heard of Labyala Nosfell and thanks to Philippe Découflé I have had the chance of getting to see him perform for the first time (hopefully not the last) ...
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