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11/9/2012

Joao Maria Gusmao and Pedro Paiva

Fri Art - Kunsthalle Fribourg, Fribourg

The Fribourg Art Centre will be hosting Trilemma: Over a Ghostly Conception, a solo exhibition by João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva. The works shown by the duo, who represented their country at the 2009 Venice Biennale, consist in a series of short, silent films on 16 and 35 mm ranging from the poetic to the experimental, as well as objects, installations and camerae obscurae. Besides their plastic creations, they have also produced a written body of work, published in compilations alongside scientific, literary and philosophical texts by other authors.

Drawing on one of Newton’s optical experiments on multiple remanent images, in this exhibition the artists challenge the status of the image and of representation within the perspective of a “phantasmal” world order. At the core of this “Trilemma” lie the fabrication of the image and of its shadows as well as notions such as visibility, projection, appearance and disappearance.

The nature of 16 mm film affords it a particular status. In an age characterized by an overabundance of smooth images, these noisy, rough, material projections command a different sort of attention on the part of the viewer, and seem to invite one to reconsider ones heritage and history. In spite of the fact that the medium itself reveals the nature of the tricks and procedures behind the appearing and disappearing of the patterns making it up, the films’ magical, illusory content induces a kind of
enchantment.

João Maria Gusmão (*1979) and Pedro Paiva (*1977) live in Lisbon.

Press contact
Marc Zendrini +41(0) 26 3232351 marc.zendrini@fri-art.ch

Fri Art - Kunsthalle Fribourg
Petites-Rames 22 - Fribourg
Wed-Fri 12-6 PM Sat-Sun 2-5 PM Thu free entry 6-8 PM Guided visits on request
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