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João Maria Gusmão

Birthplace:
Portugal

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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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Director:
2007  Eye Eclipse
2007  The Human Torch
2008  Fried Egg
2008  Meteoritica
2008  The Initiate
2009  3 Sóis
2009  A Coluna de Colombo
2009  Hand Smaller than Hand
2009  The Soup
2009  Ventriloquismo
2010  Cassowary
2010  Heat Ray
2010  Pot Smaller than Pot
2011  Benguelino Casting a Spell on the Camera
2011  Bread, Tea and Bao Game
2011  Cowfish
2011  Dream of a Ray Fish
2011  Getting into bed
2011  Solar, the Blindman Easting a Papaya
2011  The Horse of the Prophet
2011  Wheels
2012  Placing the Fisheye
2012  Those Animals That, at a Distance, Resemble Flies
2012  Water mill
2013  Proboscis
2013  Three Albinos Telling Jokes by the Fireplace
2013  Triangles and Squares
2014  Papagaio (Djambi)
2015  Sleeping in a bullet train
2016  Chopping Fruits and Vegetables
2018  Sleeping Flamingo
????  Spaguetti Tornado
????  Turtle

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