Chris Johanson's practice oscillates between 2 D and 3 D. On the one hand, the artist develops a prolific body of drawings, paintings, on the other, he develops quasi-architectural installations – spaces of interior complexity.

As Matthew Higgs showed, Johanson approaches the world as both a documentarian and diarist recording the metropolitan hubris that surrounds him. His urban strolls evoke Robert Walser's disjunctive narratives. Johanson shows fragments and details that are no longer bound to a fixed point of view, they follow a walking vision, which aims at going beyond dichotomies of inside and outside, of place and non-place. Johanson shows us space as practised place, a kind of mobile crossing which can occur through the movement of walking, transforming the abstract geometry of a place into experience of space. “... in relation to place, space is like the word when it is spoken, that is, when it is caught in the ambiguity of an actualisation...” (Michel de Certeau)

Hans Ulrich Obrist, 2005