Sitting Ray Fish
Most of their works take the form of sculpture, installation and short film, featuring amateur actors and low-tech effects.
João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva
Lisbona, Portugal, 1979 and 1977
Both live and work in Lisbona, Portugal
Artist Photo: © Joäo Gusmão + Pedro Paiva
Artork Photo: Courtesy of Sies+Höke, Düsseldorf
Artork Photo: Courtesy of Sies+Höke, Düsseldorf
João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva have been collaborating since 2001 to make what they call “poetic philosophical fiction”. Most of their works take the form of sculpture, installation and short film, featuring amateur actors and low-tech effects. Their films are characterized by short narratives that, at first sight, seem illogical. Nevertheless, far from being mere images of absurd events, these works, in fact, represent a bold engagement with major philosophical concepts such as subjectivity, free will and the very nature of existence.
Fruit Polyhedron