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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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© 2026|Roger Weiss

info(at)rogerweiss(dot)ch

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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.

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2024-2025 | Domestic Chronotopes
Archaeology of the Everyday


An installation series that reconsiders the home as a permeable chronotope. Traditionally conceived as a site of protection, the domestic sphere instead reveals itself as a condition continually rewritten by external pressures translated through large-scale datasets, manifesting through the fracturing of its internal time.
Gesture as Archive
Shelter and Exposure


The installation abstracts the home into a minimal grammar of geometric volumes scaled 1:1 to domestic objects. Actions filmed from above reduce the subject to pure presence, separating gesture from function and transforming it into trace.
Temporal Modulation
AI and the Loss of Mediation


An artificial intelligence system translates external conditions into temporal variations, enabling macro-scale phenomena to intervene upon domestic gestures through the modulation of time. In selected works, the removal of the mediating object dissolves individual will and reduces movement to a choreography without outcome.

Installation View 

Tutti i presenti che non sono mai esistiti
Two-Person Exhibition

Roger Weiss | Valentina De'Mathà

Curated by Marco Pietracupa
StadtGalerie Brixen
Brixen, Italy
2025

Installation view of Domestic Chronotopes: Archaeology of the Everyday, presented within the two-person exhibition Tutti i presenti che non sono mai esistiti, featuring works by Roger Weiss and Valentina De'Mathà.



Domestic Chronotopes
Selected Works

2.1  dc010225vd_carpet, 2025
  • Video, 4K, 16:9, Col., 9'58" in loop
2.2  dc050225vd_table, 2025
  • Video, 4K, 16:9, Col., 13'07" in loop
  • dc060225vd_kitchen-sink, 2025
  • Video, 4K, 16:9, Col., 14'49" in loop
2.3 dc060225vd_kitchen-sink, 2025
  •  Video, 4K, 16:9, Col., 14'49" in loop
2.4  dc011124vd_bath, 2024
  • Video, Full HD, 16:9, Col., 8'15" in loop
  • dc1301-020225vd_wc-bidet, 2025
  • Video, 4K, 16:9, Col., 14'33 in loop
  • dc020225vd_sink, 2025
  •  Video, 4K, 16:9, Col., 9'18" in loop
2.5  Catalog: Tutti i presenti che non sono mai estiti
  • Azerostudio Editions
  • 56 pages, October 2025, CH
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Domestic Chronotopes: Archaeology of the Everyday comprises 6 installation videos  developed between 2024 and 2025.

The complete archive remains available upon request.


Installation diagram
Domestic Chronotopes: Archaeology of the Everyday
Spatial structure of the installation: Garden area (green) / Living Area (yellow) / Bathroom area (blue)


Project Statement

Domestic Chronotopes: Archaeology of the Everyday transforms the archetype of   [...]

[...]    the home into a permeable temporal field. What is most habitual rarely leaves a trace, as if it had never occurred.

Within an environment stripped of every personal trace, geometric volumes scaled 1:1 replicate the dimensions of domestic objects, reducing them to pure physical presence. On each surface, an integrated screen returns from above, at real scale, the object and the everyday gesture that belongs to it: the body appears as an anonymous presence and the action as a common act, detached from individual identity.

An artificial intelligence system translates variable external conditions into temporal intensity, allowing macro-scale phenomena to act upon domestic gestures not as image but as rhythmic pressure. When this modulation exceeds certain operative thresholds, a textual signal appears on the viewing surface, marking the point of contact between the time of the image and what is happening in the world. The gesture remains formally unchanged, yet the time that sustains it does not.
Interface detail — dc020225vd_sink, 2025

AI signal interface
External event translated into temporal modulation of the gesture

Example event:
(1899-1923) Sixth Cholera Pandemic — (1918-1920) Spanish Pandemic

The installation unfolds across three spatial conditions: the intimacy of the bathroom, where protection and exposure converge; the ordinary field of the living area, where gesture and structure meet; and the garden, where the domestic opens toward an external symbolic field. Each environment represents a different degree of permeability between interior life and the forces that continually rewrite it.

In selected works, the mediating object is removed. Without it, the causal chain that renders a gesture legible as will dissolves. What remains is movement without outcome, a choreography stripped of purpose that no longer belongs to anyone in particular and begins to resemble everyone.
dc050225vd_table, 2025
Video, 4K, 16:9, Col., 13'07" in loop

The timeline of the work is modulated by a custom artificial intelligence developed for the project. It analyzes financial oscillations over the last 100 years and translates them into a gradual scale of temporal intensity.

A second artificial intelligence has been trained to recognize and remove the mediating object of the action — the cutlery — dissolving the causal chain between gesture and intention.

The house no longer stands as a sealed refuge. It reveals itself as a porous first universe, in which the most intimate gestures persist as human residue: no longer purposeful, yet still legible, suspended between the loss of function and the emergence of a more essential meaning.

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