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Sebastiaan Bremer (Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1970) lives and works in NYC.
Throughout his career, Sebastiaan Bremer has used pre-existing images to explore deep ideas about time, memory, and processing. In his early years, he meticulously reproduced personal snapshots in paint. Over the years, this process of “rethinking” past visual documents has led Bremer to experiment with different techniques and materials that alter the image’s material existence.
Sebastiaan Bremer turns photographs into dreams. Like a dream, “Sous Bois”— overflows with memories, thoughts, ideas, and layers of meaning. Working with colored backgrounds, the Dutch-born artist silkscreened drawings of trees recalled from rural walks in upstate New York; between these images, he layered photographs of forests, which he then altered by hand with paint and ink. “I wanted to reach back as far as possible back in time for this series,” Bremer says. Among his inspirations, he explains, were “nineteenth-century photographs by Eugene Cuvelier, Henry Le Secq, and Constant Famin, early pioneers of the medium in landscape.”
