It is the automatism of the photographic that Christian adapts here. This automatism works visually, according to the principle of a visual field that is affected by focusing or fading out.

His approach corresponds to the indifference towards the world similar to the one of photography. But his gaze is not a controlled one, an alienated one; he observes the object-world, less himself.

The background remains diffuse, the concentration on the phenomenology of the objects remains upheld, and especially the inanimate objects dominate, set the tone over the live ones.

Humans are part of a chain of events that is determined by the object, they have to wait and see or have to set the events in motion that then follows its own dynamics.

A hint of mechanization is manifest that is denied immediately by the staging of the playfulness, an inkling of the alienation and the malice of the inanimate objects.

21.02.2011 – 03.05.2011