Brett Charles Seiler

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<ul><li><b>Provocative young art that attracts attention and polarises.</b></li><li><b>Versatile, poetic and touching, not only for queers and gays</b></li><li><b>A special, high-quality art book for collectors, art enthusiasts, gallery owners and art dealers</b></li></ul> <b>Brett Charles Seiler</b> lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa, where he also graduated from the Ruth Prowse School of Art in 2015. <b>Seiler's </b>work has elements of painting, installation and object art, with a strong emphasis on the use of text and language. Sometimes poetic, nostalgic or romantic, it is an integral part of his art or also stands on its own as a work. In his paintings, space is indeterminate, the figures are not located and are sketchily fleeting, the written elements seem spontaneous, like statements from street art. The colouring moves in a narrow spectrum between black, grey, white and brown tones, often using wood. His themes are sexual interaction, oppression, homosexuality, gender, men. Hailing from Zimbabwe, a country where human rights violations are commonplace, his work also highlights the struggle for equal sexual orientation in education, media and institutions. "[My work] is a deep longing for understanding. It is from the point of view of something that I've missed, something that I cannot go back to. It's a process of research."