my name on your lips
2000
Public art project and video installation (two channel with audio and wash line with bamboos and bed sheets)
Loop 4’44” / 33’10”
Variable dimensions
Maria, Pedro, John, Karin, Roland, Cristina… Names are remembered and murmured by lips filmed in close–up and then projected large onto bed sheets hung on a washing line, revealing a delicate exercise in remembrance and forgetfulness. At the passage of the millennium, Dias & Riedweg individually asked a number of people to close their eyes, try to remember and tell only the first names of everybody they had ever slept with. Small private confessions about the memory of sex were thus transformed into something repetitive and anonymously collective in the public sphere.
Installations: MUAC Museo de Ate Contemporaneo de Mexico; Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki, Finland, 2004; Macba, Museu de Arte Contemporani Barcelona, Spain, 2003; Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, 2002; Tandoor, Johannesbourg, South Africa, 2001; Centre d’art Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 2001; Rede de Tensão, 50th Anniversary São Paulo Biennial, S.Paulo, Brasil, 2000; Stadtgalerie and Hauptbahnhof , Bern, Switzerland, 2000; Centro Cultural Candido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro, 2000
