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BIO

Letta Shtohryn works predominantly with new media, sculpture and imagery. Her academic background is in Philosophy/Sociology (University of Vienna), Photography (The Vienna Art School) and Digital Art (MFA @ University of Malta)

Selected exhibitions/ residencies

Strangers in a strange land group show curated by Unfinished Art Space @Muza, (MT); An Area of some importance (part 2) @Offsiteproject google maps residency; Algorithmic Oracle @ VideoVortexXII, by Institute of Network Cultures, Spazju Kreattiv (MT); LisbonLQ1.jpeg @ Zaratan Arte Contemporanea, Lisbon (PT); Object, Objecc, Objetc @SpazjuKreattiv (MT); Algorithmic Oracle at Vanity Projects (by Daata.Art), Miami, (USA); Little Hell Gate playlist by Daata.Art at Frieze talks, Frieze Art Fair, New York, (USA); Dream Catcher group show by Daata x Phillips at The Box @ Phillips, New York, (USA); An area of some importance at Digitalartistresidency.org; Textile Memory @AIRWRO, Wroclaw, (PL). The Tension of Things Unsaid @ Listastofan, Reykjavik, (IC); Christmas at my parents’ house @ Roundabout LX, Lisbon, (PT); Now no longer – Now not yet @ Spazju Kreattiv, (MT).:

Artist Statement

Being ceaselessly inspired by deception, Letta looks for the origins of the real and the artifice, exploring the fine line between truth and myth-making. As a method, Letta employs speculative investigations, storytelling, sci-fi inspired amalgamations, using new media, sculpture, video games, commercial goods and imagery. In her work she investigates the structure and nature of reality, our relationship to the digital realm, post-human thought, human nature and the future. She engages with realities that are at odds with each other as well as with constructs and paradoxes. Often her research-based practice can be found combining the historical and the contemporary looking for the interrelation between the current technology and the early (pre)industrial practices. She is also inspired by non-linear approaches to time and quantum theory. Letta’s work also explores gender constructs and gender representation, as part of her identity is being a full-time woman.

( Short version )w

Letta Shtohryn utilises critical media reflections linking the digital with the tangible, the historic with the current projecting subtle feminist undertones. Letta’s work can be finds space between the digital and the posthuman coexisting in a world that is increasingly governed by algorithms.