The artist duo Stella Vieira (https://www.artconnect.com/profile/stella-vieira) and Adriano Franchini works with the subjects related to the nature of the relationship as a starting point for works that are developed mainly through video, performance, drawing and paintings in installations. Their work is developed in an intersectional way to the context of the relationship itself and they consider time as an important parameter of mutation into their research, which changes with each new relational input that the duo experience. The result is co-creation resulting from collaboration between each ones involved.
         The proposed installation features two works: the video “Multimeter” and part of the “X” series of drawings, both with a performatic approach.
         The “X” series intends to simulate an “live model” drawing exercise, however the artists simultaneously assume the role of model, drawing themselves. Here, the character that the models assume is no longer passive, but participatory, since the artists are always portraying their bodies physically interacting with each other. That’s is way we chose the title “X”, which presumes a symbolic intersection between two lines. Unlike the “cross” symbol, whose lines are at 90 degrees and assume stability and stationary situation, the X symbol assumes different possible angles without disentangling itself as meaning: this is how the bodies interact in this design, seeking dynamic and unstable positions for portray themselves. The assembly of interspersed drawings (each artist executed 10 drawings till now) denotes the conceptual importance of poetic ambivalence in which 2 perspectives of the same pose are represented, each through one of the artists. It’s a series that lasts indefinitely as an affective register. 
The video “Multímetro” shows a day-long routine shared between the artists which should be understood as a performance. Their routines were programmatically intersected in order to generate a programmatic list of activities that they would do within the same space-time frame, taking the home's domestic environment as support. For 24 hours, the artists live together. At each activity, a performance device (a speaker connected to electrical power where a cable capable of transmitting sound data is connected) is activated to measure the energy of both performers. This happens through of the volume intensity that the speaker emits when the other end of the cable plug comes into physical contact in different parts of the artists' bodies. It is noticed that throughout the day and according to the nature of the activity, some sound patterns can be distinctly noticed.

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