sebastian koseda

Fully Detached - A two-week solo exhibition by Sebastian Koseda spotlighting the housing crisis and the hostile side of British architecture.

Exhibition Foreword -

Last year people were worried about heating their homes,
this year people are worried about having homes.
In an era of rising energy and aggravated nervous systems,
it’s getting harder to believe we are supposed to live like this.

Fully Detached displays no imagined future, speculative timeline or designed fiction. Instead it spotlights the condition of the city today and the united sense of displacement within it.

Sebastian Koseda uses graphic design and sculpture to challenge pre-existing modes of corporate visual communication to the point of self-critique.

The featured works interrogate the tools and language employed to maintain the contemporary city as a purgatory.

Featured Works -

1.
Sebastian Koseda
ZERO INTEREST,
2023

‘A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.’ - Robert Frost

• Brushed Steel
• Pigeon Spikes
• Acrylic
• 2321mm x 920mm

2.
Sebastian Koseda
FULLY DETACHED,
2023

• Brushed Steel
• Pigeon Spikes
• Acrylic
• 2418mm x 920mm

3.
Sebastian Koseda
Gallery Bench with Anti-Sitting Spikes
2023

•MDF & Timber
•30x Spikes (Steel)
•182cm x 50cm

4.
Sebastian Koseda
Anti-Climb Paint Paintings,
2023

•Anti-Climb Paint
•Canvas 3 x 900mm x 2000mm

The anti-climb paint paintings defend themselves as artworks, never drying, ever evolving and virtually unmovable. When recontextualised in the gallery space the paint itself becomes the menace, intrusive as opposed to a deterrent.

Do not touch the artwork
Ne touchez pas l’œuvre d’art
No toques la obra de arte
不要触摸艺术品

The Fully Detached exhibition was originally on display at the Manchester Contemporary before being presented at Sarah Kravitz Gallery, Soho Square.

Featured -
DesignBoom
Art Rabbit

Special Thanks -
Sarah Kravitz
Dave Charlesworth
Josh Spindler
Cat Utting

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