Rist’s installations consist mainly of videos, sculptures and recreations of environments that can be extremely immense yet extremely small; extremely beautiful yet extremely repulsive.

Suggestive moving images are projected onto the walls, floor, ceiling, screens and objects. The visitor must walk over them, sit on them, stand in them, kneel or lay down on the carpet and relax on dressed, body-shaped cushions in order to see them properly. There are huge wall-sized screens, tiny LCD-screens hidden inside handbags and seashells, videos projected onto a chair and a vase of flowers, as well as images screened on floating curtains and in miniature houses, a chandelier made of underwear and a horizontal pyramid sticking out from the wall.

All these video installations share the same motifs and usually display flowers, trees, animals, people and especially parts of the human body, both internal and external. In their simplicity, by shamelessly showing a nude and primitive universe, free of cultural and social taboos and restrictions, Rist presents the world in a new perspective and manages to convey an incredibly positive energy.