Play figures

Play figures – freie Gestaltung, Heiner Blum, 2002

Material: artificial leather, cotton…
It is a group of puppets, made of artificial leather and latex. The puppets have a height between 30 cm and 70 cm. Each puppet has a face, except one without a head. Each puppet wears a robe except one naked puppet. The puppets represent girls or animals; they are suspended from invisible nylon strings. They seemed to be disfigured as if they are guinea pigs from a labour test. Each puppet has an individual function, with the group of puppets. The group itself is similar to that of a theatre group. Each individual puppet describes a certain feeling or a character, which transcends to the outer world.