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ⓧ My So-Calleds

In Summer 2019 Rebecca Stephany and Mathias Lempart shared a two-month residency in Lithuania as part of the exhibition Life Intense at Nida Art Colony.
Together they created “My So-Calleds”, an artwork consisting of laser engraved wood boards, textile patches with a graphic novel, concrete pedestals, an augmented reality filter, metal chains and the graphic design for the group exhibition Life Intense. 
The exhibition was curated by Marina Valle Noronha and Dovilė Tumpytė and was made possible by Goethe Institute.

“For the exhibition Life Intense at Nida Art Colony (19 July – 31 August, 2019), Rebecca Stephany and Mathias Lempart developed the exhibition design as well as the art work “My So-Calleds” for the exhibition, letting presumed bina­ries between “reality vs. virtuality” or “applied vs. autonomous art” collapse in plain sight. Spread around the venue, exhibition signage boards act as mascots, offering visitors multiple ways to enter the show. For the their project “My So-Calleds”, Stephany’s and Lempart’s research transmuted into a feedback loop of different formats and media. “Aren’t we as dependent on our digital devices today as pagan Lithuanians were on the gods ruling the sun, moon, and thunder?” they ask. “Perhaps this desire to depend, to outsource one’s agency to higher powers, is intrinsic to human kind. It must be a human condition,” they conclude.”
—Nida Art Colony, 2019