Sebastian Gladstone is proud to present timo fahler’s TERMINAL CLASSIC at our New York gallery. This exhibition gathers a new body of work made between Los Angeles and Amsterdam, during a time of personal upheaval and collective uncertainty. Fahler transforms found objects into images of history and myth, using everyday material to reveal the weight of ancestry, memory, and personal struggle.

The exhibition begins with a discarded mattress bedspring found in Los Angeles in 2024. fahler came across it while running, an integral part of his studio practice. For months it leaned on a studio wall until one day it revealed itself as a flag. The thirteen rows of springs became rows of red and white stripes. That act of recognition became the first gesture in this body of work, built from what was discarded and found around Los Angeles. flag was the last piece fahler made in the U.S., a quiet artifact that marks the end of an era for him.

From there, the materials began to guide him toward…