Reminisce-Supports: Sebastian Haas

Opening 21.3.26 | 6 - 10 pm

Artist Talk  3.5.26 | 5 pm

In the series “Reminisce-Supports,” Sebastian Haas combines industrial material samples, types of glass, and found objects with stock photos and reverse glass painting, a technique in which layers of paint are applied directly to the back of the glass using oil or spray paint.

Aluminum profiles and narrow rails arrange these elements into a structure that translates the grid and scroll logic of digital surfaces into physical space. Modules and drawers made of MDF frame the material body and allude to the practice of archiving.
Starting with AI-generated images, Haas uses scraping and paint application to bring motifs of museum buildings and interiors out of the abstract background. The depicted scenes mirror the external order of the rails and drawers, of grid and archive.

Together with stock photos and material samples, the AI-generated designs form a system of standardization. The digital images are contrasted by used found objects as a physical counterpoint. Although once mass-produced themselves, they assert an authenticity through signs of wear and material fatigue that transforms them into an index of time.

In the intertwining of material, digital image logic, and personal history, remembering becomes visible as an active process of ordering. A structure emerges in which the provisional order of things overlaps with the provisional order of memory.

Florian Brand

with the kind support of Burgergemeinde and Swisslos Kultur Kanton Bern.