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Installation views of RT202512DRAW by Rexy Tseng, from his solo exhibition Tenet, curated by Sophia Yvette Scherer. Artist talk today Jan 16th 19h. Rexy Tseng RT202512DRAW, 2025 Graphite on paper 30 x 50 cm Unique Tseng’s new drawing series RT202512DRAW, 2025, is inspired by technical diagrams found in instruction manuals. Like clockwork, components within a machine are expected to interlock smoothly according to a clear logic. Usually obscured by optical casings, the inner workings of such apparatuses remain invisible. What appears as random mechanism inside slot machines is, in reality, precise engineering. Yet in Tseng’s four graphite drawings, the sooted, hatched contours obscure this precision, shifting the amusement device into a dark, smoky, almost sentient mechanical sculpture reminiscent of H. R. Giger’s phantasmagoric fusions of human and machine. Pulling the lever of a one-armed bandit, engaging it with one’s own bodily force, creates a peculiar trust in the device. In virtual gambling (or, similarly, autonomous driving), the system’s functioning becomes elusive; in this abstraction, artificial effects of light, sound, and motion are required to stimulate belief. Rexy Tseng: Tenet Curation and text by Sophia Yvette Scherer December 13, 2025 – January 24, 2026 Mariannenstraße 33, 10999 Berlin

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