Guilherme Peters

“Retrato do presidente”, 2019. Duration: 32’55”

“Safeword”, 2018. Duration: 22’28” (video)

“Escola sem partido”, 2017. Duration: 19’25”

“Quando todas as possibilidades de sanidade mental se extinguirem”, 2017. Duration: 33’22”

“ESTUDO PARA FESTIVAL AO SER SUPREMO: – PRIMEIRO ATO (Robespierre lecionando sobre a falência revolucionária); – SEGUNDO ATO (Homenagem à Charlotte Corday e a descarga dos Sans-Culottes), 2016. Duration: 43’20”

“Proxy Reverso”, 2014-2015. Duration: 88′

“Le retour des sans-culotte”, 2013-2016. Duration: 29’00’’

“Student”, 2012. Duration: 12’11”

“Invisible enemy”, 2011. Duration: 15’51”

“Robespierre and the attempt to retake the Revolution”, 2010. Duration: 9’34’’

“Attempt to evoke the spirit of Joseph Beuys around this space”, 2009

Description of works:

– “Self-portrait with Roosevelt, Lénin e Hitler”, 2009
“Self-portrait with Roosvelt, Lénin e Hittler” is a work composed by four images, one of them being a self-portrait, and official portraits of Roosevelt, Lenin and Hitler, executed through a process of oxidation on iron plates, the four plates are connected by an electric circuit which powers an electric motor, which constantly rotates on its axis. The surface of the plates maintains electrocution whilst the work is assembled. In case one of the plates is switched off, the circuit stops working, similar to a living organism, where every part depends on the operation of the other.

– “Oath at the shadow of the repulic”, 2013
“Oath at the shadow of the repulic” consists of a copy in drawing of the painting “Oath of the Horatii” by Jacques-Louis David. In the reproduction the swords (central element of the painting) were removed from the drawings and printed on through a screen printing on a glass, on the frame of the work. A reflector projects a light on the screen printing on glass, allowing for the swords to cast a shadow on the drawing. The reflector is connected to the frame of the work, which is made of iron, turning it into a sort of electric fence.

– “Student”, 2012
Action executed on the 29th November, 2012 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I placed a sheave on the ceiling and put a rope through it. I tied my arm around one end of the rope and the other tip a box. The action began when I placed a few art history books inside the box and tried to draw and make observations about the books with my hand tied to the rope. In order to reach the paper with the pencil I had to lift the weight of the same books I was trying to draw, so that the weight of the object on which I was drawing conditioned my drawing. Thoughout the action, I gradually placed more and more books, making the act of drawing more difficult. The action action lasted more than four hours, but before I could reach my physical limit, the sheave got caught.

– “Invisible enemy”, 2011
Invisible enemy is a video in a unique sequence plan. A tense situation develops without a conclusion, as a unfulfilled promise of an achievement: a soldier, in an unidentified place, pursues an enemy who does not identify himself.

– “Robespierre and the attempt to retake the Revolution”, 2010
“Robespierre and the attempt to retake the Revolution”, is video about the political life of Robespierre, who was one of the most radical and respected French revolutionaries, and also a republican icon. The video is divided in five scenes which demonstrates pathetic actions, leading to a collapse.

– “Holy Land”, 2013
The oxidated iron plate shows the image of the dessert of Israel, whilst a soldering iron burn a passage of the Torah that speaks about the holy land. The plate and the soldering iron are connected to the same circuit, if a part of the circuit is turned off, the whole circuit stops working.

– “Attempt to evoke the spirit of Joseph Beuys around this space”, 2009
Action performed at Galeria Vermelho during the exhibition “Verbo 2009”, where I attempt to evoke the spirit of Joseph Beuys wearing an outfit similar to Beuys’ and using materials which he utilised in his works, such as felt, copper and lard and aggregating a skateboard as an instrument of action.

– “I want to be the best way possible”, 2013
“I want to be the best way possible”is a work composed by three iron plates painted with liquid insulating tape (product used to subsitute the insulating tape, avoiding electricity to go through its surface), in the three plates, the areas which are not covered by liquid insulating tape, form lines which compose drawings by the artist Josef Albers. The three plates are connected to an electrical circuit which powers a television monitor, showcasig a video in loop of several skateboarders attempting to do tricks but not being able to complete them. The energy which powers the television monitor goes through the lines which forms Albers’ drawings, if one of the plates is turned off, the monitor stops working.

– “Le retour des sans-culotte”, 2013-2016
“Le retour des sans-culotte” is a film that aims to investigate, through a peculiar narrative, the political dispute in Brazil and the world from 2013. It appropriates representations of the first group of urban guerrilla group in history, “the sans culotte”, who had a major political influence during the French Revolution. Each of the allusions that the video traces, leads back to the foreign body formed by the European headquarters of the ordering of knowledge. The film emulates them, but does not take own them. In fact, it revolts against how much they do not belong to it. Worse, how much them seem unable to contain contradictions facing the unpalatable reality of the present.