
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.
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Pedro Paiva

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A Moeda-Viva
2024

Sleeping Flamingo
2018

Chopping Fruits and Vegetables
2016
Sleeping in a Bullet Train
2015
Papagaio (Djambi)
2014

Three Albinos Telling Jokes by the Fireplace
2013

Proboscis
2013

Triangles and Squares
2013

Placing the Fisheye
2012

Those Animals That, at a Distance, Resemble Flies
2012
Water mill
2012

Dream of a Ray Fish
2011

Bread, Tea and Bao Game
2011

Wheels
2011

Solar, the Blindman Eating a Papaya
2011
Benguelino Casting a Spell on the Camera
2011
The Horse of the Prophet
2011

Getting into bed
2011
Cowfish
2011

Cassowary
2010

Pot Smaller than Pot
2010

The Soup
2009

Hand Smaller than Hand
2009

3 Sóis
2009

Ventriloquismo
2009

A Coluna de Colombo
2009

Tarciso’s Analogy
2009

Hairy Stone
2009

Fruit Polyhedron
2009

The Initiate
2008

Fried Egg
2008
Meteoritica
2008
