About

"The possible is only the real with an added act of the mind."
_Henri Bergson

Christian Patracchini is an independent artist, writer and editor based in London.
Moving across different art forms; text, sound, photography and drawing, his practice explores movement, potentiality and the conditions through which things begin to appear.

His enquiry explores a code of gestures which investigate their potential and modes of existence in relation to their own privation. Within practice and research, he often addresses the essential importance of these integral resonances and movements before a choice or a solution has been reached, leaving it deliberately ‘unresolved’ whilst attempting to catch new thought and action dawning at a creative crossing. At the centre of many of his projects there is a fascination with how movement can be felt before it actualizes – taking form is a key to a developing vocabulary of movement that foregrounds incipience rather than placement/dis-placement.

Processes of association, extraction, juxtaposition, distortion and fragmentation are vital approaches in order to create ‘apertures’ which rather than arriving at end-objects, or fulfilling objective ends, they are carried by wavelike tendencies, in a rollover of experiences continually substituting for each other.

Recent Projects

A Site of Disclosure: Heidegger, Wood, and the Unconcealment of Being _ What Is It to Dwell? (Book 2026)
The Signature of Things (EP, 2026)
Artaud’s Faith (EP, 2026)
Not a Point or an Instant (Book of fragments, 2026)
Chorister‍ ‍(EP 2026)
Ontological Gate (Photobook, 2024)

Having previously presented work in exhibitions and festivals in the UK and abroad, his recent practice has developed through the publication of books, anthologies, and sound works, alongside drawing and photography.

He is the founding editor of ZenoPress, an independent publisher. 
For current activity please check the News on the homepage.

All photographs on this site are by the artist unless otherwise stated.