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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 intensifies, 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, tension emerges. Breathing onto another is never neutral: it produces exposure, modesty, resistance. Air, invisible, becomes the matter of a relationship. Within this minimal space, a friction arises that makes distance perceptible.
Coupling
Misalignment and drift
The videos are paired, two by two. The subjects face each other, respond, or remain indifferent. Their rhythms diverge: one intensifies while the other withdraws. The encounter never resolves. It drifts, constructing an unstable form between relation and separation.
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Installation View
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
Be Two
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.
Complete archive 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 is asked simply to breathe. No further instructions. What emerges is not neutral. The act shifts from automatic function to visible behaviour. Breath becomes an index of individuality.
In a second phase, the videos are paired. This pairing constructs a relational space. Subjects are positioned so that their breathing enters into contact within the image. In some works, they face each other laterally; in others, directly, in profile. Their rhythms diverge, interfere, and never stabilise.
In certain configurations, subjects are asked to breathe onto each other. Air becomes relational matter. Invisible, yet fully present, it carries proximity, exposure, and the immediacy of the body. What is exchanged cannot be seen, but it structures the encounter.
Each work emerges from the pairing of two individualities that do not merge. What takes form is an unstable field sustained by a continuous interference between closeness and separation. The relationship produces no union, only a persistent tension between autonomous identities.