Cornelia Lein - Reverberation (echte Dinge/real things)

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Reverberation (echte Dinge/real things)

AIR 2017

Inkjet print on paper
8 × 10 Inches

The work is a reminiscence to the artist book ‘echte Dinge / real things’, I created during my residency at Latitude Chicago in 2017. I was researching architectural models and storytelling en miniature at the time. Living in Chicago I was struck how hyperreal many scenes and how massive everyday objects felt. I bought little manufactures objects from the supermarket and scanned my hands holding them. Inspired by a stray find book ‘How to learn German‘ from the 80ies that wildly mix-matched German and English in the sentence, I translated the umbrella term of each collected object as they would sound to a person from the other language area. On the page next to the fake lemon it reads Obst (owe-bst) - fruit (fwrut). With ‘Reverberation (echte Dinge/real things)’, 2026 I once again detach the object from its definition. The scanned image now hovers above a loose cluster of blank sticky notes in an unknown location. I hope to pop round to Chicago again soon for a glass of lemonade.

This print is available only from September 17th - December 7th, 2026. After this date, this image will not be made available in this format again.

Reverberation (echte Dinge/real things)

AIR 2017

Inkjet print on paper
8 × 10 Inches

The work is a reminiscence to the artist book ‘echte Dinge / real things’, I created during my residency at Latitude Chicago in 2017. I was researching architectural models and storytelling en miniature at the time. Living in Chicago I was struck how hyperreal many scenes and how massive everyday objects felt. I bought little manufactures objects from the supermarket and scanned my hands holding them. Inspired by a stray find book ‘How to learn German‘ from the 80ies that wildly mix-matched German and English in the sentence, I translated the umbrella term of each collected object as they would sound to a person from the other language area. On the page next to the fake lemon it reads Obst (owe-bst) - fruit (fwrut). With ‘Reverberation (echte Dinge/real things)’, 2026 I once again detach the object from its definition. The scanned image now hovers above a loose cluster of blank sticky notes in an unknown location. I hope to pop round to Chicago again soon for a glass of lemonade.

This print is available only from September 17th - December 7th, 2026. After this date, this image will not be made available in this format again.

Cornelia Lein

Cornelia Lein (she/her) is an artist, curator and author. She studied Fine Arts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and at the HBK Braunschweig. In 2015, she founded the feminist project space _____TIM NOLAS in Vienna, which was most recently active in (semi-)public space with the nomadic exhibition and publication format 4/. Her research focuses on economies of time and space as well as subject and knowledge production in relation to cultural techniques of storytelling, hosting, gifting, collecting and playing. In her practice, she uses curatorial footnotes such as texts, objects, models and publications to playfully explore and expand the boundaries of artistic and curatorial roles and tools.

Thoughts on the lab

Looking back, I think the residency made me realise just how much I love publications, and that the best ideas sometimes come about when you try something out on the spur of the moment, rather than spending ages trying to come up with a perfect concept. Still working on that.