2007

Video installation (5 channels with original soundtrack)

Diverse Loops | Variable dimensions

„The House“ is presented as a self-portrait on video. But following the main theme of their work, alterity, Dias & Riedweg decided to multiply their own images in each of the five videos, so that each image presents several Mauricios and several Walters in everyday situations, filmed at home. The videos have an average duration of 3 minutes each and show the duo working in the studio, acting in a musical number of piano (Walter Riedweg) and voice (Maurício Dias) in the library, circulating at night in a long corridor with 10 mysterious doors, as well as occupying the garden and the facade of the house where they live and work.

The multiplication of their author-characters in each video transfers the artistic tradition of the self-portrait to the duo's main theme: alterity. In „The House“, „the self“ becomes a sum of several „others“ that compose it. The visual repetition of the characters-authors, thus, subtracts any possibility of reading their real identities. Again, the authors lead us to be on the border of real and fictitious territories, without actually indicating in which territory they operate. Through rhythmic and fanciful choreographies, the videos reveal the real space of the house, whose floor plan design made by the artists themselves supports this installation.