João Maria Gusmão
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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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Sleeping Flamingo (2018)
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Spaghetti Tornado (2010)
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Water mill (2012)
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3 Sóis (2009)
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Onça Geométrica (2013)
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The Soup (2009)
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Fried Egg (2008)
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Papagaio (Djambi) (2014)
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Meteoritica (2008)
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Wheels (2011)
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Cowfish (2011)
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The Initiate (2008)
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Dream of a Ray Fish (2011)
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Bread, Tea and Bao Game (2011)
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Cassowary (2010)
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Eye Eclipse (2007)
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Pot Smaller than Pot (2010)
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Hairy Stone (2009)
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Solar, the Blindman Eating a Papaya (2011)
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Proboscis (2013)
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Turtle (2011)
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Donkey (2011)
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Pipe (2014)
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Wave (2011)
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Fruit Polyhedron (2009)
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Ventriloquismo (2009)
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Chopping Fruits and Vegetables (2016)
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Glossolalia (2014)
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Three Albinos Telling Jokes by the Fireplace (2013)
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Benguelino Casting a Spell on the Camera (2011)
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Heat Ray (2010)
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Sleeping in a Bullet Train (2015)
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Hand Smaller than Hand (2009)
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Placing the Fisheye (2012)
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The Horse of the Prophet (2011)
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A Coluna de Colombo (2009)
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The Human Torch (2007)
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Tarciso’s Analogy (2009)
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Those Animals That, at a Distance, Resemble Flies (2012)
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Triangles and Squares (2013)
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Motorcycle, Bike and Human Dots (2014)
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Under a car (2011)
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Getting into bed (2011)
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