Whether through video, interactive installations, photography or other media, Lupita Reggiani draws her audience into the heart of architecture and the relationship it forges with the entities that inhabit it, seeking to explore our ability to interpret a space by understanding its signs. She grounds this exploration in an ongoing negotiation between limitation and becoming.

We shape our sense of self by inhabiting the ordinary world we believe we understand; yet, ultimately, how do we inhabit a space, and what actions does that space prompt us to take?

How does a structure shape systems of interaction, by structuring engagement and desire to make different outcomes possible or impossible? How do conventions frame the events that constitute our being?

The artist focuses on interaction to reveal these dynamics. She seeks to forge a connection between the audience and the structures that shape our daily lives: a website, a home, a job, a city, a family, a feeling… By opening up a dialogue, she enables us to experience these relationships from a different perspective, making their violence tangible and thus malleable.

The architectures of everyday life, ordinary interactions and repetition shape our sense of self and harbour unspoken structures that categorise us. What might emerge when the ordinary is observed in a way that challenges the beliefs and customs by which we live? Her practice explores the structures of everyday life that evolve within us and the violence inherent in their processes of categorisation—processes heavily favoured by the evolution of technology in our technocapitalist societies—staging shifts that reaffirm agency and pose the question: what might we become?

Lupita Reggiani (b. 2001, Bayeux, France) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Amsterdam who works with interactive installation, photography and performance. Her practice is rooted in an ongoing negotiation between limitation and becoming. 

Thanks to Js Donny, Yann Van Der Meer, Ines Pereira, Nour Ben Said, Mel Keane, Priscilla Benyahia, Liza Rolland, Yasemin Imre, Asli Nur Mahmutoglu, Juliette Lizotte, Femke Herregraven, Mina Squalli-Houssaïni, Clara Dufflot, Liselor Perez, Lola Colmez, Racheal A Rakes, Laura Trance, Janomax, Achille, Pat, Pierre Butic, Pierre Gerard, Shuhei Kobori. L'équipe de Medialab. 

Co-production credits (Motel Apparel) :

Actor voices : Nour Ben Said for 'Narrator', Ines Pereira for 'Nancy ' ;
Original music composition : JS donny ;
Music: Mel Keane and Yann van Der meer ; 
Sound design: Yann Van der Meer ;
Extra sound design: Jean Mallet;
Extra voice et sound : Lucija Gregov, Priscilla Benyahia, Liza Rolland, Asli Nur mahmutoglu, Juliette Lizotte,

The View : video and record from Js Donny piano.

In memory of Alma Dubois.