It’s fitting that Christian Weber’s latest work, a short film for luxury designer Bottega Veneta, is a meditation on travel. The photographer and filmmaker is constantly coreening around the world, often unsure of where he’ll be day to day, mentally ping pong-ing from project to project. “There’s a lot of artist that have one subject they want to explore-they’ll do studies, some of them their whole life,” Weber says. “I’m interested in a lot of different things…I can’t stick to one thing for too long.”

You’d think that a restlessly creative spirit like Weber might bristle at boundaries, but he welcomes them, dividing his time between commissioned work and personal projects. ” I think boundaries are great. I find it challenging to actually just be with myself.” In addition to strict parameters, Weber is inspired by more esoteric concepts; a look at his body of work shows unblinking portraits, obsessive religious iconography, panoptic landscapes, and dreamlike films. Still, he has no problem pin pointing a through-line of inspiration, especially in his more recent works. “It has to do with science and quantum physics and molecular structure, really dealing with the fact that all the broad, diverse subjects in my work are all matter. It’s all the same matter-how does this matter change form?”

It’s that transmogrification, from shoot to finished work- “What happens as you take in and put it back out as another creative form?” – that drives Weber. “The whole process is perception. Whether it’s film or photography or painting, or just moving through your day, it’s all based on perception. That’s one of the biggest elements I try to acknowledge in my work.”
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