March 5 ? April 9, 2005
Reception for the artist: Saturday, March 5, 2005, 6-8pm
Hours: Tuesday ? Saturday 10-6 PM

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Roebling Hall is extremely pleased to present The Brazil Project, a new film and installation by Christoph Draeger in collaboration with New York film director Gary Breslin.

The Brazil Project centers on the film Constructio Infernalis, a 30-minute cinematic horror thriller inspired by the failed utopian aspirations of modernist architecture. The film was shot on location in São Paulo, Brazil, with an entirely Brazilian cast and crew, including Brazilian horror film legend Zé do Caixao as a terrifying vagrant, and rising star Paula Zwicker as Lucia.

Constructio Infernalis unfolds in an abandoned, never-completed modernist building on the outskirts of São Paulo. With a knowing nod to horror movie conventions, a teenage couple enters the old building in search of adventure, only to find themselves pulled into a vortex of nightmarish encounters that culminate into a brutal murder and Lucia?s descent into madness.

By combining the projection of the film with an installation that echoes its sets, Draeger interferes with the illusionism of movies while placing the viewer in a similar position to that of his protagonists.

Christoph Draeger has recently exhibited his work in the Kunstwerke KW Berlin, Kunsthaus Graz and the New Britain Museum of Contemporary Art. He has had solo exhibitions in, amongst other venues, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Musee d?Art Contemporaine, Toulouse and the Kunsthalle Fri-Art, Freiburg. He recently designed the sets for the performance of Damnation Road (with Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People) at The Kitchen, New York.

For further information or images, please contact the gallery.

Adriana Arenas - Erik Benson - Jane Benson - Sebastiaan Bremer - Paul Campbell - Christoph Draeger

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