23 April - 11 May, 2013
Curator: Carolina Grau
Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art
Lisbon, Portugal
Artists
Filipa César, Lisa Tan, Salma Cheddadi, Julião Sarmento, Jaume Pitarch, Rui Toscano, Raphaël Zarka, Duncan Campbell, Eric Baudelaire, Pablo Pijnappel
A Duet is an activity performed by a pair of closely connected individuals. Each one has its own characteristics playing the same melody with different tones, tempos and rhythms.
Duet is a presentation of specific video works by two artists creating a dialogue with their similitude and differences changing during each day of the week. Using the existing two different spaces at Cristina Guerra gallery, one space darker and more intimate and the other wider for more cinematic experience, the different conversations will develop during each week.
The five duets in the exhibition explores different contemporaries issues that are such as combining documentary and viewpoints are the films by Filipa César (1975, Porto) and Lisa Tan (1973, Syracuse, New York); the sensuality and the female body by Salma Cheddadi (1984, Casablanca) and Julião Sarmento (1948, Lisboa); the influence of painting and its manipulation by Jaume Pitarch (1963, Barcelona) and Rui Toscano (1970, Lisboa); the film assembly from archive material, discussing public figures or spaces by Raphaël Zarka (1977 Montpellier) and Duncan Campbell (1972, Dublin) and the presence and the absence of images by Eric Baudelaire (1973, Salt-Lake City) and Pablo Pijnappel (1979, Paris).