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Dias & Riedweg
18 April > 6 June 2009
Mauricio Dias (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1964) and Walter Riedweg (Lucerne, Switzerland, 1955) work together since 1993. They share in their multidisciplinary artistic public projects their respective experience on the domain of visual arts and performance. Both artists are recognized by their social commitment and for having dedicated an important part of their work to marginalized groups that participate in the creative process and in its execution.
Mauricio Dias (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1964) and Walter Riedweg (Lucerne, Switzerland, 1955) work together since 1993. They share in their multidisciplinary artistic public projects their respective experience on the domain of visual arts and performance. Both artists are recognized by their social commitment and for having dedicated an important part of their work to marginalized groups that participate in the creative process and in its execution.Like Duchamp’s work, these «malas para Marcel» seek to integrate their own conception, their own history in the work itself. The object is the subject of the video. The suitcases for Marcel could either be interpreted as a work going further beyond the moving image, or as a philosophical essay on immigration. Here, the objects migrate from season to season, all year long, while evolving from one context to another in the heart of Rio de Janeiro. Viewers will recognize the city and the timing but the videos tell no story. Some will only see suitcases passed from hand to hand, from one context to another, from one place to another; objects in motion transported without purpose, repeatedly and meaninglessly.
Others will see the metaphor of capital: money also travels without a forethought destiny. When the twelve suitcases are exhibited together, a thirteenth one is projecting on the wall a movie retracing the distance covered by the suitcases just before they landed in the gallery.
