Sebastiaan Bremer
2003-2005
How do you sleep? (Detail)
Ink on C-print / 49 3/4 x 50 in / 126.4 x 127 cm Based on a photograph by PJ Kranjer
Sebastiaan Bremer’s art pictures a world as seen through a screen. Fields of innumerable hand-drawn ink-dots blanket his large-scale glossy photographs, thwarting a clear or immanent apprehension of the image beneath and evoking the sleepy twilight of half-conscious thought. Referencing visions by turns dreamy and druggy, Bremer’s dot-screens speak of our inevitably mediated relationship to the “real.” Through the clash of the drawn and the photographic, Bremer presents a world that can never be experienced directly, a world that resists complete description through any single method or mode. These dual registers of representation literalize the argument that our experiences are always only known piecemeal through contingent matrices. Compelling his viewers to look at – and through – the surface of his images, Bremer creates a visual disruption that makes us attend to the simultaneous (and sometimes contradictory) filters that necessarily mediate any experience, or attempt at expression. Neither the dots nor the photographic images ever fully describe, demonstrating Bremer’s central philosophical observation that all apprehension is necessarily subjective and incomplete.
Jordan Kantor
Artist's Publications
Avila
Sebastiaan Bremer
Texts by Jordan Kantor and Sabine Russ
Photography by Jodokus Driessen and Frank Oudeman
Published by Roebling Hall NY and 99 Publishers Holland
Price: $50.00 Retail