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Roger Weiss is a Swiss visual artist whose research explores the fragmentary construction of human identity in contemporary society through photography, video and installation.
Graduated with honors from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, he investigates the human being as a threshold between presence and abstraction, memory and fiction.
His practice is guided by a constant tension toward the archetype: an inquiry into the body as a primordial figure that precedes roles, time, and narration.
He has exhibited in galleries and art fairs across Europe and the United States, including Ohsh Projects (London, UK), Gallery Sébastien Lepeuve (Clichy, FR), Snap! Orlando Gallery (Orlando, US), Limonaia di Villa Strozzi (Florence, IT), Museo del Barocco (Noto, IT), Gervasuti Foundation (Venice, IT), StadtGalerie Brixen (Bressanone, IT), Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut (Heidelberg, DE), and Kulturzentrum Alte Kaserne (Winterthur, CH).
His works have been published in international art and photography books, including The Opéra (Kerber, DE), The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's (Josef Weiss Private Press, CH), and Doppelgänger – Images of the Human Being (Gestalten, DE), as well as in leading international publications such as WWD (US), L'Officiel (US, FR, IT), Vogue (UK, DE, IT), Numéro (FR), Marie Claire (FR), Schön! (UK), Interview Magazine (DE), Stern (DE), Carnale (IT), Digit! (DE), and Blink (KR). He has also been interviewed by Dazed (UK), i-D (UK), Exibart (IT), ArtsLife (IT), RSI (CH), Vogue Italia (IT), and NY Arts (US).
In parallel, he has collaborated with international brands such as Apple, Enterprise Japan, Amina Muaddi, and Wolford, developing projects that placed his artistic research in dialogue with fields of visual and cultural innovation.
From 2017 to 2020, he directed the artistic vision of Collectible DRY, an international English-language magazine distributed worldwide, contributing to its conceptual and editorial identity.
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Roger Weiss works at the intersection of the archetypal and the systemic.Through photographic construction, temporal modulation, and spatial installation, his practice dismantles the human: body, gesture, habitat, to expose the structures beneath.What precedes identity is his subject. 6
2009–2013 | Be Two
The body interprets itself
Each subject is asked simply to breathe. What should remain automatic shifts. The rhythm charges, holds back, expands. Breathing reveals itself as interpretation, transforming an involuntary function into a visible trace of individuality.
Proximity
The threshold of the other
When two breaths draw close, an immediate tension emerges. Breathing onto another implies a threshold: modesty, exposure, resistance. Air, invisible, becomes the matter of a relationship. Within this minimal space, a friction arises that makes the distance between two bodies perceptible.
Coupling
Misalignment and drift
The videos are paired, two by two. The subjects face each other, respond, ignore one another. Their rhythms diverge: one grows, the other yields, one insists while the other withdraws. The encounter never fully resolves, but slides into a drift, constructing an unstable form between relation and separation.
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Be Two, 2012
From left to right
bt300712vd, 2012
Video full HD, 16/9, col., 00:15:03 in loop
bt040812vd, 2012
video full HD, 16/9, col., 00:14:18 in loop
Screaming Screen
Gervasuti Foundation
Venice, IT, 2012
Selected Works
6.1 bt290313vd_001, 2013
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Video,
Full HD, 16:9, Col., 10'45" in loop
6.2 bt290313_002, 2013
- Video, Full HD, 16:9, Col., 10'29" in loop
6.3 bt220812vd, 2012
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Video, Full HD, 16:9, Col., 15'53" in loop
6.4 bt130812vd_001, 2012
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Video, Full HD, 16:9, Col., 16'16" in loop
6.5 bt130812vd, 2012
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Video, Full HD, 16:9, Col., 12'17" in loop
6.16.26.36.46.5
Be Two comprises 20 video works developed between 2009 and 2013.
The complete archive remains available upon request.
Be Two,
2012 (0'30" excerpt)
Double-channel video installation
From left to right
bt300712vd, 2012
Video full HD, 16/9, col., 00:15:03 in loop
bt040812vd, 2012
video full HD, 16/9, col., 00:14:18 in loop
Project Statement
Be Two is a series of video performances made between 2009 and 2013.
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Each subject, framed frontally or in profile, in mid-shot or close-up, is asked simply to breathe. No further instructions. What emerges from this simplicity is anything but neutral. Every subject responds differently: some breathe almost imperceptibly, others amplify the act into a declarative gesture, others build a crescendo that transforms a physiological function into a confession. Breath, stripped of context, becomes an index of character.
In a second phase, the videos are paired, two by two. The pairing is not arbitrary: subjects are oriented within the visual space so as to generate a relationship. In one diptych, two figures face each other laterally, as if looking at one another. The subject on the left begins with a contained breath and moves toward a growing intensity; the one on the right follows an opposite trajectory, withdrawing into a form of contraction. The dynamics attract, collide, coil around each other.
In another configuration, subjects are filmed in profile and positioned vis-à-vis, facing one another directly. They are asked to breathe onto each other. Air, invisible, becomes the matter of a relationship: it carries with it the possibility of smell, the animal awareness of the body, the modesty before an unnegoitated intimacy. This proximity, reconstructed through editing, generates a friction that belongs simultaneously to physical and psychological space.
Each work is born from the pairing of two individualities that do not merge. What emerges is an unstable space, a continuous interference between closeness and separation. The relationship produces no union, but sustains a persistent tension between autonomous identities.