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