Sebastiaan Bremer
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Artist Statement
I take photographs, found or personal into trippy, dusty memories that simultaneously reveal the subconscious and the real world in one blink of the eye. I’ve invented a poetic braille made-up of text, personal symbols, and ghostly shapes that integrate with their complex grounds almost to the point of disappearing, becoming buried in a sea of suspended dots. By laboriously painting on top of snapshots, I intend to slow down time to render a hauntingly beautiful interior landscape.
Confessional: Turn to Moss was originally created for the project Sanctuary 2017 that took place at the San Damiano Mission from Feb 27th – March 17th 2017 in Greenpoint Brooklyn. The confessional was inspired by and replaced, if only temporarily, the original confessional that had recently been converted into restrooms at the Mission.
Curator Statement
A trip
Sebastiaan Bremer’s photos from the series Schöner Götterfunken are from a family trip, one he did not go on, by the way, but family trip photos nonetheless. Sebastiaan uses the family archive and then does what DJs do: manipulate records (in this case, photos) to reflect a different something. By using dots in a myriad of ways, somehow magically within the photo processing, the colors saturate the film, and we see The Alps, well differently. Then after the photos are processed he adds more dots, by hand, making each photo unique. Dots have a history . . . John Baldasarri created a middle space with his dots . . . in between, splashing a dot here and there to make us think of surface, redaction, and semiotics . . . and of course we have Seurat who employed a different kind of scientific playfulness. Very much the arbiter of family outings . . . in a good way . . . DJs rule. . .
