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Pedro Paiva
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.
Com a direcció
A Moeda-Viva
Sleeping Flamingo
Chopping Fruits and Vegetables
Sleeping in a Bullet Train
Papagaio (Djambi)
Pipe
Motorcycle, Bike and Human Dots
Glossolalia
Three Albinos Telling Jokes by the Fireplace
Proboscis
Triangles and Squares
Onça Geométrica
Those Animals That, at a Distance, Resemble Flies
Placing the Fisheye
Water mill
Dream of a Ray Fish
Bread, Tea and Bao Game
Rodas
Solar, the Blindman Eating a Papaya
Benguelino Casting a Spell on the Camera
The Horse of the Prophet
Getting into bed
Cowfish
Turtle
Donkey
Under a car
Wave
Cassowary
Pot Smaller than Pot
Spaghetti Tornado