Tor Seidel
Subtitle: mannequins
By: [translations, Amy Klement, Cindy Ruch ; text, Zoltán Somhegyi, Richard Weihe]
Contributors: Somhegyi, Zoltán, 1981-; Weihe, Richard; Empty Quarter Gallery (Dubai, United Arab Emirates); Galerie Berlin-Weekly (Berlin, Germany)
Series: Kerber photo art; Kerber photoart
Publisher: Kerber Verlag
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Bielefeld
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783735603340
Subjects: Exhibitions; Artistic Photography; Mannequins (Figures); Pictorial works
Other titles: Tor Seidel :; Mannequins
Description: "Amigo," "selfie," or "dummy"--these are what Indian or Pakistani migrant workers in the Gulf states call the dolls that serve them as street signs and signal figures on construction sites. While the workers see these whimsical dolls merely as a pragmatic means to an end, the photographer Tor Seidel finds them to be works with great artistic qualities. Fragile and short-lived, in Tor Seidel's staging of the dolls, they make a grand appearance as unrecognized superstars of the hot desert streets. His presentation of the "mannequins" assembled in this book makes them seem curiously animated, radiating a presence and a certain aliveness, with a disconcerting effect.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Empty Quarter Gallery Dubai, 2018; Galerie Berlin-Weekly, Berlin, 2018.

Text in English and German.