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Roger Weiss is a Swiss visual artist. His work investigates what precedes identity: the body before the subject, the gesture before function, presence before narrative.

Working across photography, video and installation, he constructs images through fragmentation, recomposition and temporal modulation. Developed over more than two decades, his practice treats the human figure as a constructed field of perception, time and presence.

He graduated with honors from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan.        

His long-term research began with the human body as a constructed surface. In Human Dilatations, each work is manually assembled from hundreds of macro photographs of the same subject. The body is fragmented, reconfigured and enlarged until it no longer corresponds to a single photographic instant, but to the total time of its construction.

Over time, this investigation has expanded from the body to gesture and habitat. The figure, the domestic act and the spatial condition become fields in which the human appears before being reduced to identity, function or narration.

His work has been exhibited and published internationally, with appearances in books, exhibitions, interviews and editorial contexts concerned with the body, identity and contemporary visual culture. Selected collaborations, including Apple and Wolford / Amina Muaddi, extend his research into the wider field of image production without separating it from its artistic matrix.







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What precedes identity
is my subject





Bodies, gestures and habitats as presences before name, role and narrative.

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Selected Earlier Works
Titles and concept notes.


2008–2020 | I Am Flesh
The body as immediate reality


Thirty-five female subjects are presented without filter, in a condition that precedes representation. Extreme definition makes every detail accessible and resists synthesis. The body is not interpreted, but exposed as an irreducible presence. Vision becomes direct encounter.




2008–2020 | At Home
The reciprocity of the gaze


Performers filmed via webcam in their private rooms are projected into the exhibition space. Whoever looks is simultaneously looked at. The image does not document, but constructs a relation between private and public grounded in distance and reciprocal presence.


2011–2019 | My Beautiful Broken Women
Beauty and Vulnerability


The face returns as the centre of the image. Fully exposed, it enters a tension between integrity and alteration. Small objects and minimal interferences cross the scene without forming narrative. Beauty emerges as a fragile and open condition.   



2019  |  Survey of the Human Map  
Interiority, relation, generation


A video trilogy unfolding through three conditions of the female body: internalised violence, relation with the other, and the emergence of life. Each chapter develops a different tension between bodily presence, transformation, and cultural imagination.    



2019–2022  |  Flat Humans
The body as map

The body is opened into a continuous surface and reconstructed through hundreds of photographs. The figure loses verticality, orientation, and hierarchy. The face dissolves as a centre of control. Skin becomes a readable territory extending in every direction.   





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