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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.

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 2019–2022 | Genealogy of a Body
Genealogical Inversion

Genealogical research traditionally moves backwards, tracing a lineage towards a single point of origin. Here the direction is inverted. The series begins with already formed subjects and advances through successive hybridisations, progressively condensing into a single figure that concentrates all prior combinations. The origin is not behind. It is ahead. The contemporary totem
Condensation as Form

Over 3,000 macro photographs of human subjects are processed and hybridised across multiple stages, starting from twelve source figures. Each passage introduces a deviation that prevents the stabilisation of a linear descent. The resulting figure does not correspond to an individual identity, but to a field of accumulated transformations. A body that contains the whole without coinciding with anything specific. Process and Instability
Image as Sequence

Each work is constructed through the manual assembly of hundreds of macro photographs, first organised as preparatory studies and then consolidated into a single image. The sequence maintains an apparent legibility. At closer range, this coherence fractures. The genealogical system collapses into a process of continuous redefinition Hybridisation sequence of Genealogy of a Body series

Top row: parental subjects.
Second row: first hybrid generation.
Third row: second hybrid generation.
Coloured markers indicate the contribution of each original subject. 

Genealogy of a Body
Selected works

5.1   s11b(140620_272ph)+s6b(170620_207ph), 2020 5.2  s1_210719_100ph, 2019
5.3  s10_220220_185ph, 2020
5.4  s3(061019_216ph)+s5(221019_211ph), 2019
5.5  s2(210719_131ph)+s5(221019_211ph)+sunburn, 2019
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 Genealogy of a Body comprises 30 photographic works developed between 2019 and 2022.


Complete archive available upon request.


Video-Zoom works
s1_210719_100ph,  2019




Project Statement

Genealogy of a Body departs from a structural inversion of genealogical   [...]

[...]    logic. Instead of tracing identity back to an origin, the series constructs a forward movement in which the body emerges through successive hybridisations. Identity is not inherited. It is produced through accumulation.

Each figure results from the stratification of multiple subjects, assembled into dense photographic constructions that no longer correspond to a single instant, but to the total time of their formation. The image becomes the site of a process rather than its representation.

Preparatory collage studies, assembled in the artist’s notebooks, establish the initial conditions of this process.
Preparatory collage study,  notebook

#000_notebook_43ph-s6b_170620_207_4_5ph, 2020

The final figure functions as a contemporary totem: a form of condensation in which differences persist without resolving. It does not represent an origin, but an endpoint that contains all preceding transformations without stabilising them.

Presented as photographic prints, the works manifest this accumulation as a dense, unresolved visual field.
Fine art print. Medium format  

Image Size | 150 × 105 cm
Sheet Size | 165 × 111.8 cms

s11b(140620_272ph)+s6b(170620_207ph), 2020

The series does not reconstruct a genealogy. It exposes its instability. The origin does not precede the process. It emerges from it. What remains is an open sequence in which the body coincides with the transformations that generate it.

The Video-Zoom works extend this condition, traversing the image and revealing structures that remain latent in the print.
TVideo-Zoom works
s11b(140620_272ph)+s6b(170620_207ph), 2020
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