Based in Brooklyn, Samuel Christian is an interdisciplinary artist and writer engaged in contemporary art practice, continental philosophy, and post-structuralist theory. In their visual practice, Christian ‘plays’ within a network of installation, sculpture, found-object, drawing, and performance; emphasizing how odd confrontations of material, object, and body serve as the starting point for new encounters and contexts to emerge from. Whether this takes form in visually explicit or redundant methods of connection-making (such as tape, stapes, push pins) or highlighting the subtlety of a material’s particularities in its relation to others; Christian’s practice strategically attempts to create ensembles of visual languages to ‘throw’ a viewer into an at-hand ‘problem’. A ‘problem’, which in its attempted reconciliation, opens divergencies beyond ones socially informed ways of knowing, seeing, and approaching an object. In this sense, Christian’s practice is at each level of approach, creation, and viewing after the fact, a constant opening of confrontations and problems commanded by an object. Christian recently exhibited, Bullpen, 2024, in collaboration with Eamon King at 818 Marcy, New York.
In their writing practice, Christian takes on an academic investigation into Western ontology, semiotics, and post-humanism and their creative uses outside of the discipline of philosophy. They are currently writing on the solo and collaborative works of Deleuze and Guattari, particularly in his forthcoming work, Drawing Deployment: Minor Arrangements of Kafka and Cage.