João Maria Gusmão
Joao Maria Gusmao b. 1979, Pedro Paiva b. 1977. Live and work in Lisbon. The Portuguese artists Joao Maria Gusmao and Pedro Paiva have collaborated since 2001 on creating objects, installations and 16mm and 35mm short films. The duo describe their overall project as a kind of “recreational metaphysics,” a genre that to a certain extent they themselves have re-invented following the Portuguese poet Alberto Caeiro (Fernando Pessoa) on his layered aesthetical modern experiment on materialism. The short films depict staged episodes and sequences of pseudo-scientific experiments with both poetical and comical consequences. In recent years Gusmao and Paiva’s production has centered on the idea of movement and duration, both within the cinematographic vocabulary, with references to early film pioneers as Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey, and through the artists’ own practical experiments and conceptual invention.
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Chopping Fruits and Vegetables
DirectorBread, Tea and Bao Game
DirectorThree Albinos Telling Jokes by the Fireplace
DirectorPlacing the Fisheye
DirectorEye Eclipse
DirectorThose Animals That, at a Distance, Resemble Flies
DirectorCassowary
DirectorDream of a Ray Fish
DirectorTriangles and Squares
DirectorProboscis
DirectorThe Initiate
DirectorThe Soup
DirectorFried Egg
DirectorWheels
DirectorSolar, the Blindman Easting a Papaya
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