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Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss were born in Z?rich in 1952 and 1946, respectively. Fischli graduated from the Academia di Belle Arti, Bologna in 1977 and Weiss from the Kunstgewerbeschule, Z?rich in 1964. The artists established a collaborative partnership in the late 1970s. Their humorous and playful works, in a wide variety of mediums such as photography, sculpture, installation and video, challenge traditional notions of the art object and the artist himself. Throughout their oeuvre, everyday objects and experiences are removed from their traditional contexts and transformed into something new, becoming involved in alternative narratives that emphasize the subjective nature of art and the art object. In their work, irony and contradiction are often present and things are not always what they seem. Fischli and Weiss are best known for the film The Way Things Go (1987), in which everyday household and art studio objects interact with each other in implausible, humorous scenarios.http://www.skarstedt.com/artists/peter-fischli-and-david-weiss/