Sean Snyder

“We know that under the image revealed there is another which is truer to reality and under this image still another and yet again still another under this last one, right down to the true image of reality, absolute, mysterious, which no one will ever see or perhaps right down to the decomposition of any image, of any reality.” Michelangelo Antonioni, Rome, 29th July 1969

Lisson Gallery is proud to announce the very first solo exhibition by American artist Sean Snyder in London.

Sean Snyder’s work revolves around the built environment and the media.

Working with photography, video and text, Snyder rigorously dissects the role of ideological representation in the construction of the urban and media space.

Snyder’s research based practice uses both self-produced and reprocessed material to uncover indexes that function as ruptures in ideological representation and subversive counterpoints to dominant knowledge. Snyder exposes latent content of images via procedure of selecting formal and/ or meaningful details that refer to issues of control, distortion and appropriation.

Snyder’s exhibition for Lisson Gallery comprises of a series of new photographic and video works that analyze the implicit visual and technological vocabulary of image making and its dissemination. The work explores ideas of accessibility, transparency and the limitation of what is visible, inherent in the resolution and compression of visual data, as well as overt montage and propaganda techniques.

Experimenting with various analogue and digital image reproduction methods and using a series of art, photographic and cinematic references Snyder exposes constructed nature of media events and brings into question the notion of the real.

Born in Virginia Beach, USA in 1972, Sean Snyder lives and works in Berlin and Kiev.

He has exhibited extensively internationally, with recent solo exhibitions at the Secession, Vienna; Portikus, Frankfurt; De Appel, Amsterdam; Neue Kunsthalle, St. Gallen.

Important group exhibitions include: 4th and 6th Gwangju Biennale; 9th Istanbul Biennale; 5th Busan Biennale; Populism, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; GNS: Global Navigation System, Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Living Inside the Grid, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Territories, Kunst-Werke, Berlin / Witte de With, Rotterdam; Utopia Station, 50th Venice Biennale; 1st Berlin Biennale and Manifesta 2.

Forthcoming exhibitions include: Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam; Institute of Contemporary Arts, Dunaujvaros; Sala Rekalde, Bilbao; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest.

Sean Snyder