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adaptation / disorder
2016, video on control screen, text animation projected on wall

 

Referencing the fragmentary, reduced style and unconventional montage of the film "Red Desert" (by Michelangelo Antonioni), the video installation adaption / disorder develops a distinct narrative form.
A narrow control screen chronicles selected images from the film: all we see are rooms. Uninhabited and devoid of context, they become enchanted, mysterious places. Here, the symbolic color scheme of the original film is negated by the use of black and white; the actual storyline is no longer comprehensible.
The proportional sizes of the film image and the subtitles are reversed: the main character's lines are projected in oversized dimensions, as deconstructed sentences. The nonexistent cinematic narration creates a synthesized atmosphere of confusion and crisis, an inner monologue that can be experienced and illustrated subjectively.

Part 1 - The inner monologue

The main character's lines are projected in oversized dimensions, as deconstructed sentences that synthesize an atmosphere of confusion and crisis.

Part 2 - Mysterious places

A narrow control screen chronicles selected images from the film: all we see are rooms. Uninhabited and devoid of context, they become enchanted mysterious places.
Here, the symbolic color scheme of the original film is negated by the use of black and white; the actual storyline is no longer comprehensible.

christoph brueckner artist adaptation disorder The Photographic Collection - SK Foundation for Culture

Installation view at Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne 2017/18

Installation view at Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne 2017/18

Installation view at HGB Leipzig, 2017

Installation view at Ospitale di Rubiera, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2016

 

adaptation / disorder
2016, video on control screen, text animation projected on wall

 

Referencing the fragmentary, reduced style and unconventional montage of the film "Red Desert" (by Michelangelo Antonioni), the video installation adaption / disorder develops a distinct narrative form.
A narrow control screen chronicles selected images from the film: all we see are rooms. Uninhabited and devoid of context, they become enchanted, mysterious places. Here, the symbolic color scheme of the original film is negated by the use of black and white; the actual storyline is no longer comprehensible.
The proportional sizes of the film image and the subtitles are reversed: the main character's lines are projected in oversized dimensions, as deconstructed sentences. The nonexistent cinematic narration creates a synthesized atmosphere of confusion and crisis, an inner monologue that can be experienced and illustrated subjectively.

Part 1 - The inner monologue

The main character's lines are projected in oversized dimensions, as deconstructed sentences that synthesize an atmosphere of confusion and crisis.

Part 2 - Mysterious places

A narrow control screen chronicles selected images from the film: all we see are rooms.
Uninhabited and devoid of context, they become enchanted mysterious places.
Here, the symbolic color scheme of the original film is negated by the use of black and white;
, the actual storyline is no longer comprehensible.

christoph brueckner artist adaptation disorder The Photographic Collection - SK Foundation for Culture

Installation view at Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne 2017/18

Installation view at Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne 2017/18

Installation view at HGB Leipzig, 2017

Installation view at Ospitale di Rubiera, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2016

 

Christoph Brückner is a Berlin-based visual artist who works across painting, screen printing, and digital image creation.

Copyright 2026 Christoph Brückner (Brueckner)

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