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Christoph Draeger
Christoph Draeger, Le Radeau de la Macumba, 2004 (The Raft of Macumba)
Exhibition view, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, 2004
An installation based on the film Bloodspill in Brazil by Gary Breslin and Christoph Draeger, 2004
Installation with video projection, 2 screens, sound, 25'
wooden raft, objects from the Macumba cult, candles and various objects
Courtesy Anne de Villepoix Gallery, Paris, and Roebling Hall Art Gallery, New York
© Printemps de Septembre, photo André Morin
Christoph Draeger, exhibition view, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, 2004
© Printemps de septembre, photo André Morin
Born 1965 in Zurich (Switzerland), he lives in New York, USA.
For ten years now, Christoph Draeger has been working with images of disaster, destruction and violence, which he uses to make films, environments, sculptures and mystery pictures.The artist witnessed 9/11 live from his studio window in Manhattan and, simultaneously, on his TV screen. Not that this changed his approach to such events which, in contrast to the media treatment, seeks to analyse the political, cultural and psychological workings of images of disaster.
At les Abattoirs – Musée Frac Occitanie Toulouse he presents a new video and sculpture installation produced specially for the occasion on the basis of a horror film made in Brazil with Coffin Joe, a living legend of the genre in that country, in an environment associated with the Macumba cult.
Production Les Abattoirs, Musée d'art moderne and centre d'art contemporain, Toulouse.