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SETAREH Berlin is pleased to announce Sebastian Riemer's solo exhibition Das Ende des XX Jahrhunderts.

Sebastian Riemer’s Stills are concerned with obsolete things: 35mm slides used for teaching and research in art history during the 20th century. This series explores a medium that is in the process of disappearing. These are not snapshots taken and seen only in private. What you could call the series’ raw material comprises labeled, often mass-produced, professional images, which Riemer then photographs. This process results in semantically dazzling large-format pictures.

The images …