Büchel develops a complex course of different architectural spatial situations with extreme diverse atmospheres. The architectural interventions are so concise that even long-time visitors become unsure whether they have gotten the floor wrong. From room to room, through corridors, through a closet, upstairs, down ladders, visitors get caught up in a complex confusion of spatial constellations: Büchel's rooms wear on the nerves, and at the same time they evoke longings. They are claustrophobic and seductive at the same time; some cool, some forbidding, and some playful. The atmosphere one gets into oscillates between reality, film, dream and fiction and the possibility of discovering a new, a different space. As a visitor you have to actively go in search of something one does not yet know and of which one does not yet know, if it even exists. Christoph Büchel's exhibition creates a complex situation in which concepts of truth, reality and identity emerge in different ways, condensing the question of the relationship between corporeality and fiction in art from an acute perspective.
Christoph Büchel (*1966, Basel/CH) is a Swiss action artist. He lives and works in Zurich.