Studio Artists
Seb Patane
2 Dec 10
Seb Patane creates pared-down tableaux made up of drawings and adapted found imagery and objects, as well as sound, video and live performance. Resurrecting material that contains a particular potency for him, Patane is drawn to ideas of history, contaminated mythology and altered states. His sources have included staged Victorian portrait photographs, occultist mountaineer Aleister Crowley, and writer/director/psychomagical therapist Alejandro Jodorowsky. Through a process of filtering and simple interventions – obliterating faces with an excess of sticky biro ink, assemblages of simple elements and found objects – Patane bleeds images of specificity leaving a residue of menace.