stefan bruggemann

INTENTIONAL DISTORTION

For Purple’s Analog Issue, Mexican artist Stefan Brüggemann — known for his post-conceptual work treating language as both visual and political material — returns to the raw immediacy of hand-drawing.

Created in the calm of his new studio in northern Ibiza, his latest series, Extreme Words, is a visceral, instinctive, almost naïve response to the digitalization of artistic experience. We publish three works: Loud, Online, and Speech, Speed, Sex, Sea — each charged with the energy of graffiti, artistic urgency, and conceptual gesture. 

These drawings stand in direct opposition to the invisible manipulation behind the supposed clarity and neutrality of language as data, reclaiming it as an echo of childish disobedience. They confront the viewer not as units of information, but as physical gestures that blur the line between writing and drawing, between concept and emotion.

— Olivier Zahm

ALL ARTWORK BY STEFAN BRÜGGEMANN, EXTREME WORDS,…