FULLY DETACHED

Exhibition 22nd January – 4th February 2024

Sebastian Koseda

A two-week exhibition spotlighting the housing crisis and the hostile side of British architecture.

Three cans of BLACKFRIAR Anti-Climb Paint, with one can tipped over and showing black paint inside, placed on a white tiled floor against a white wall.
Open art book displaying a white page with text and black icon on the left, and a textured black painting on the right.

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.

Three large black abstract paintings with textured, glossy surfaces hanging on a white gallery wall. Black paint is dripping and pooling at the bottom of each canvas, creating a monochromatic art display.
Black adhesive or sealant spilled on a beige floor in front of a black plastic-wrapped object.

Sebastian Koseda
Anti-Climb Paint, 2024
Canvas
76.2 × 101.6 cm

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.

Ne touchez pas l'œuvre d'art
No toques la obra de arte
不要触摸艺术品

An art installation with large blue letters spelling 'ZERO INTEREST' on a white wall, with small prickly objects protruding from the letters and a small stool with a yellow book on it in a minimal gallery space.

Sebastian Koseda
Zero Interest, 2024
Brushed Steel, Pigeon Spikes & Acrylic
232.1 x 92 cm

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

Minimalist office space with white walls, blue illuminated text reading "ZERO INTEREST" on the left, green illuminated text reading "FULLY DETACHED" on the right, a glass table in the center, and black chairs around the table.
Bright white wall with neon green letters spelling 'FULLY DETACHED' and small wire spikes around each letter, flanked by vertical white light strips on each side.

Sebastian Koseda
Fully Deteched, 2024
Brushed Steel, Pigeon Spikes & Acrylic
241.8 x 92 cm

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

Sebastian Koseda
Xxxxxxx, 2024
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XXX x XX cm

A minimalistic art installation featuring metallic cone-shaped objects arranged on a white surface in a white gallery space with a narrow vertical light strip on the wall.