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BACKGROUND TO A SEDUCTION
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Background to a Seduction
Video, 19', 2004
Built using recordings from five of the author's performances in Roubaix, France, where he lived in 2003-04. An old wallpaper, a table, and two chairs set the stage for the performances, which were carried out in roofs and gardens, so that the artist's neighbors could watch from their windows. The action revolves around the silent conversation of an approaching couple. In the video, at times the scene is seen up close, and at others from inside empty houses and apartments, as if from the perspective of the audience for the original performances. Presented at the 15th Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival (2005).
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THE END
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The End
Video, 14', 2006
Two men go about a bureaucratic, seemingly routine work, as they make obscure comments to each other regarding a joint project of undefined nature. They wander about a scenographic office, its walls covered with an incongruous pattern evoking country life. The video discusses a decadent order that still seems to govern the characters and their world.
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SHOULD WE NEVER MEET AGAIN
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Should We Never Meet Again
Video, 26', 2005
A man who has “problems at home” walks through Paris and revisits, mentally, the friends and acquaintances who could provide him with shelter for the night. Increasingly frustrated, he realizes he would not like to be with most of them, and that the remaining ones would probably not like to be with him. Here and there, his thought is interrupted by dreamful digressions, created by the passing of a background that transports the action to other places.
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LE TOURISTE
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Le Touriste
Installation, 2003
Two curtains comprise a curved street through which the spectator passes. At different places, two short films are projected. In the first one, Smith is a tourist who gets into an argument with a street beggar in a strange town; some of the locals defend him, while others blame him. In the second projection, the same tourist sits at a café, and experiences an episode of attraction-frustration with the woman at the table beside him. The work deals with the divergence between the desire to broaden one's horizons and the fear of leaving the safety of the past. Screened at the 14th Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival (2003).
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THE INTERVIEW
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The Interview
Video, 9', 2002
The situation is a job interview. The interviewer speaks to the camera, as if speaking to the interviewee. The former implies that he knows the latter and, little by little, a long story unfolds, involving both. The surprise continues as the camera turns to the interviewee. The artist plays both roles.
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WE MET AT THE BUSSTOP
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We Met at the Busstop
Video, 12', 2001
The artist tells the story of his meeting with a travelling man, when going from Milan to Amsterdam. In alternating sequences, he laughs and cries, showing more emotional attachment to the story than one initially supposes. The story is the same one told by the artist at bus stops, dancing, in the homonymous performance.
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