Timo Seber. Techies

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TIMO SEBER, Techies
installation view at Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig, April 2015

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Big Daddy, 2015
C-print on leather

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TIMO SEBER, Techies
installation view at Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig, April 2015

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TIMO SEBER, Techies
installation view at Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig, April 2015

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Techies #12 (Detail I), 2015
C-print on leather, hemprope, newspaper

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TIMO SEBER, Techies
installation view at Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig, April 2015

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TIMO SEBER, Techies
installation view at Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig, April 2015

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Techies #12 (Detail II), 2015
C-print on leather, hemprope, newspaper

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TIMO SEBER, Techies
installation view at Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig, April 2015

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Techies #3, 2015
Hemprope, c-print on leather, steel

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Techies #9, 2015
Hemprope, c-print on leather, steel

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Techies #11, 2015
Hemprope, c-print on leather, steel

all images courtesy the artist and Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig

photos: FALK MESSERSCHMIDT / DANIEL POLLER, Leipzig

A few days ago Tobias Naehring Gallery in Leipzig opened a new exhibition featuring the work of German artist TIMO SEBER. The solo exhibition entitled Techies, which means basically technological experts but which also refers to the gaming world, consists of a series of ropes, wall mounted dip bars, acrylic wall piece, leather t-shirts with screenshots printed on them, newspapers as well as a photograph which is actually a snapshot from SEBER‘s childhood. Although the main concerns of the show revolve around digital technologies, cyber-culture and virtual spaces, the works presented are surprisingly analog and even convey a digital middle age atmosphere.

The press release written by WENCKE SCHUBERT provides more explanations about video games and e-sports in connection with the pieces in the exhibition:

The world of e-sports is incorporeal. To succeed, strategy and a fast reaction time are of the essence. Liberated from his/her physical form, all of the player’s options are open. Stepping into the role of the hero, one arms oneself for battle, choosing from a practically endless pool of forces and supporters, such as the Techies. One’s own personal identity exists on some meta-level. Not only is it present in the game itself, in the hero, but it also exists as part of a community of gamers, who are in constant communication with each other. In the exhibition space Seber submits this meta-level to new transformations, creating a complex conglomerate of virtual and real elements. The 3-dimensional T-shirts made of leather appear to be physical incarnations of the game-heroes’ battle armor. The screenshots printed on the T-shirts and the rope ends refer to their virtual origin. Here, the artist draws various parallels to the cyber community: with its likewise often very young players and their convention in a separate space, a constructed reality. The boundaries between the game characters and the players of the game blur. Users themselves become Techies, by sharing strategies, techniques and tricks in live stream. A coded language ensues: technical and reduced in its expression. –  WENCKE SCHUBERT, 2015 (translated by ANNE FELLNER)

Techies by TIMO SEBER is on view at Galerie Tobias Naehring in Leipzig until June 5, 2015



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