Brett Charles Seiler (*1994 in Zimbabwe) is a South African artist. He lives and works in Berlin and in Cape Town (South Africa), where he graduated from The Ruth Prowse School of Art in 2015. In his artistic practice, gender and sexuality are the focus, subverting patriarchal and heteronormative ideals. We see intimacy and acts of kindness between men, but also a peculiar representation of space. The backdrop is often void-like and suggestions of linear perspective, such as the lines of a table, are loose and compromising. Through this aesthetic, Seiler allows himself artistic and creative freedom, in line with his subjects’ apparent freedom of being. Through his art, Seiler allows himself the space to live outside of the rules to explore the body, overt sexuality and sexual taboo, and emotional vulnerability.
Brett Seiler's work has been shown in international solo and group exhibitions, such as at at the Miettinen Collection (Germany), A26 Set Space Beijing (China), the No Hero Museum in Delden (the Netherlands), Schloss Altdöbern (Germany), the Museum Bensheim (Germany), G2 Kunsthalle (Germany), SALTS City (Switzerland), the 1690 Art Collection Space in Shanghai (China), and the Zeitz MOCAA (South Africa).
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