The work of João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva has employed a diverse range of media, though the use of film and photography has been recurrent. The situations constructed with characters and elements, which at times transfer from one work to another, do not suggest a narrative that assumes the development of a situation in a time lapse. The humour demonstrated by each one of these intriguing and inconsequential situations stems from a nonsense that influences their work, marked by the obsolete choreography and practices from the silent films of cinema's early age.

Pedro Lapa
Will and Afirmation
René Daumal
Mount Analogue
Design: Fluor Design

dimensions: 27 x 21,5 cm
pages: 100
images: 84
Color: C
Cover: Hardcover

publisher: IPM / Museu do Chiado - MNAC. Lisbon, 2005

available: S