Zeremoniell

Tanya Leighton, Berlin, is pleased to present Zeremoniell, a solo exhibition by Vincent Haynes. Vincent Haynes paintings take as their subject the pomp and pageantry of statecraft that the artist watched on broadcast television as a child. As if captured from an old cathode ray television, Haynes’ work draws attention to how memory is itself mediated through the very look and feel of successive generations of technology. Like an afterimage burnt into a monitor screen, the throngs of faceless dignitaries in Haynes’ work feel at once located in and dislocated from the scenes they inhabit. Growing up in Germany as a biracial child, Haynes’ work uses the vehicle of televisual mediation to ruminate on the legacy of Western empire and the postcolonial politics of the present. Vincent Haynes (b. 1989, Bremen, Germany) lives and works in Bremen. He received his Diploma from the University of the Arts Bremen in 2018 and his MFA from the University of Chicago in 2021. He is the recipient of the prestigious Georg-Meistermann-Stipendium. His solo exhibitions include Ackerman Clarke, Chicago in 2023; ‘politics’ at Künstlerstätte Stuhr/Heiligenrode, Stuhr, Germany in 2022; ‘castrum doloris’ at Galerie Feiertag, Kassel in 2021. Haynes’s work has been part of group exhibitions at Museum Weserburg, Bremen; Kunstverein Lüneburg, Germany; GAK - Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst, Bremen; Logan Center Gallery, Chicago; Junction Hall, Detroit; Belong Gallery, Chicago; myanmart/artsake, Yangon, Myanmar and 934 Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, among others.

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