Transfutures™
Exhibition
SSTR6 Schönbrunnerstraße 6, 1040 Wien
1.—10.10.2025
Artists: Thieler Lee Everett
Curator: Natascha Muhic
In “Transfutures™” Lee Everett Thieler examines the visibility of trans bodies in speculative future scenarios. The analog photographs show, among other things, a trans body in a futuristic AI-tech suit. Skin, scars, and surfaces are revealed, along with the question of how intimacy can be retained in technologically shaped images.
Thieler’s works combine documentary elements with a speculative gaze. The analog practice is deliberately contrasted with digital imagery: this makes it possible to achieve a different kind of proximity, one that works through presence instead of sharpness. “Transfutures™” remains true to its personal visual language and takes it one step further: as an attempt to give queer bodies a new position beyond representation and narrative, and not as an alternative plan for the future, but as a part of it. In “Transfutures™” Thieler investigates the interrelationships between concepts of future, body, and identity. The series of photographs consists of two sequences, each of which work in different ways with tension: visually, physically, and thematically. One part of the work shows a trans body in a realistic, technological AI suit. The analog camera is confronted with a promise for the future that remains ambivalent: does the suit protect, or does it dictate something? What does visibility mean if it is mediated by technology? In another setting, four studio shots show the same person naked, with elastic bands on their body. The elastic bands cling tightly to the body, pulling and holding it in place. The body and the material react to each other—sometimes in a controlled way, and sometimes in a free manner. Thieler’s pictures oscillate between document and fiction, proximity and distance. They question how much future potential the body has—and the strength of the present in its representation. The work remains close to its protagonists without stylizing them. “Transfutures™” views bodies not as completed forms but as spaces of possibility.
Attention: For details on accessibility, please contact the program partner directly.
Thieler’s works combine documentary elements with a speculative gaze. The analog practice is deliberately contrasted with digital imagery: this makes it possible to achieve a different kind of proximity, one that works through presence instead of sharpness. “Transfutures™” remains true to its personal visual language and takes it one step further: as an attempt to give queer bodies a new position beyond representation and narrative, and not as an alternative plan for the future, but as a part of it. In “Transfutures™” Thieler investigates the interrelationships between concepts of future, body, and identity. The series of photographs consists of two sequences, each of which work in different ways with tension: visually, physically, and thematically. One part of the work shows a trans body in a realistic, technological AI suit. The analog camera is confronted with a promise for the future that remains ambivalent: does the suit protect, or does it dictate something? What does visibility mean if it is mediated by technology? In another setting, four studio shots show the same person naked, with elastic bands on their body. The elastic bands cling tightly to the body, pulling and holding it in place. The body and the material react to each other—sometimes in a controlled way, and sometimes in a free manner. Thieler’s pictures oscillate between document and fiction, proximity and distance. They question how much future potential the body has—and the strength of the present in its representation. The work remains close to its protagonists without stylizing them. “Transfutures™” views bodies not as completed forms but as spaces of possibility.
Attention: For details on accessibility, please contact the program partner directly.
Mon2–7 PM
Tue2–7 PM
Wed2–7 PM
Thu2–7 PM
Fri2–7 PM
Sat2–7 PM
Sun2–7 PM
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Artists: Thieler Lee Everett
Curator: Natascha Muhic
In “Transfutures™” Lee Everett Thieler examines the visibility of trans bodies in speculative future scenarios. The analog photographs show, among other things, a trans body in a futuristic AI-tech suit. Skin, scars, and surfaces are revealed, along with the question of how intimacy can be retained in technologically shaped images.
Thieler’s works combine documentary elements with a speculative gaze. The analog practice is deliberately contrasted with digital imagery: this makes it possible to achieve a different kind of proximity, one that works through presence instead of sharpness. “Transfutures™” remains true to its personal visual language and takes it one step further: as an attempt to give queer bodies a new position beyond representation and narrative, and not as an alternative plan for the future, but as a part of it. In “Transfutures™” Thieler investigates the interrelationships between concepts of future, body, and identity. The series of photographs consists of two sequences, each of which work in different ways with tension: visually, physically, and thematically. One part of the work shows a trans body in a realistic, technological AI suit. The analog camera is confronted with a promise for the future that remains ambivalent: does the suit protect, or does it dictate something? What does visibility mean if it is mediated by technology? In another setting, four studio shots show the same person naked, with elastic bands on their body. The elastic bands cling tightly to the body, pulling and holding it in place. The body and the material react to each other—sometimes in a controlled way, and sometimes in a free manner. Thieler’s pictures oscillate between document and fiction, proximity and distance. They question how much future potential the body has—and the strength of the present in its representation. The work remains close to its protagonists without stylizing them. “Transfutures™” views bodies not as completed forms but as spaces of possibility.
Attention: For details on accessibility, please contact the program partner directly.
Thieler’s works combine documentary elements with a speculative gaze. The analog practice is deliberately contrasted with digital imagery: this makes it possible to achieve a different kind of proximity, one that works through presence instead of sharpness. “Transfutures™” remains true to its personal visual language and takes it one step further: as an attempt to give queer bodies a new position beyond representation and narrative, and not as an alternative plan for the future, but as a part of it. In “Transfutures™” Thieler investigates the interrelationships between concepts of future, body, and identity. The series of photographs consists of two sequences, each of which work in different ways with tension: visually, physically, and thematically. One part of the work shows a trans body in a realistic, technological AI suit. The analog camera is confronted with a promise for the future that remains ambivalent: does the suit protect, or does it dictate something? What does visibility mean if it is mediated by technology? In another setting, four studio shots show the same person naked, with elastic bands on their body. The elastic bands cling tightly to the body, pulling and holding it in place. The body and the material react to each other—sometimes in a controlled way, and sometimes in a free manner. Thieler’s pictures oscillate between document and fiction, proximity and distance. They question how much future potential the body has—and the strength of the present in its representation. The work remains close to its protagonists without stylizing them. “Transfutures™” views bodies not as completed forms but as spaces of possibility.
Attention: For details on accessibility, please contact the program partner directly.
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In “Transfutures™” Lee Everett Thieler examines the visibility of trans bodies in speculative future scenarios. The analog photographs show, among other things, a trans body in a futuristic AI-tech suit. Skin, scars, and surfaces are revealed, along with the...
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