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Seb Patane, are we brothers in arms in brothers we are, 2013. Screen print and pencil on printed paper, wood, paint, tape, leather, 17.5 x 153 x 223 cm.

Seb Patane, The Guilty vs Monsieur Carnot, 2007. MDF, Inkjet Print on Leather, Pencil on Paper, Record Cover, Tape, Found Speakers, Dimensions Variable.

Seb Patane, Artillery Offensive 8-99, 2010.

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.