In his videographies, Christoph Brech explores new perspectives of familiar scenes. He films a conductor's back so that only the jacket's folds are visible as they move with the music (Opus 110a), or shoots distorted reflected images of buildings and trees by attaching his camera to the shiny surface of a Fiat Punto's trunk as it drives through Rome (Punto). In Brech's works, the beholder always needs to re-orientate. By making the unconscious conscious, the hardly perceptible becomes the content of the work's image and is the focal point of interest. In this way, Christoph Brech succeeds in abstracting the concrete, defamiliarising the known by divorcing familiar situations from their context. Accompanied by noises or spheric music, which has an important place in his videographies, Christoph Brech allows the beholder to experience the lyricism of everyday life and the sensuousness of the moment.

Photography: Roland Horn
Courtesy Galerie KUNSTAGENTEN I FELDBUSCHWIESNER, Berlin
© Christoph Brech, VG Bildkunst Bonn, 2011