Sebastiaan Bremer
- Artist Statement
- Curator Statement
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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 Shoener Goetterfunken are from a family trip, one he did not go on by the way. . . But family trip photos nonetheless. Sebastiaan doesn’t so much take photos for this series but use the family archive and then do what DJs do manipulate the record/vinyl to reflect a different something. Using dots in myriad of ways, somehow magically within the photo processing, so colors saturate the film process, 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 creates 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 a different kind of scientific playfulness. Very much the arbiter of family outings . . . in a good way . . . But DJs rule. . .
