With "I can not believe it.", SCOTTY presents an exhibition featuring artists Manja Ebert and Sabrina Labis. The show brings together two positions that reflect on the processes behind the creation and circulation of digital images, examining the contextual shifts and narratives that emerge within social networks. Both artists focus on the shifting contexts and narratives that emerge in social networks, using strategies of collecting, organizing, and reconfiguring found footage to investigate the intersections between digital technology, networked communication, and perception.

In "Brubble", Manja Ebert translates the invisible flows of data and the hidden background processes of social networks into a tangible video and light installation. The work invites viewers to reflect on resource consumption and the dynamics of a content culture that constantly (re)produces, shares, and instrumentalizes new material. Ebert continues these investigations in OBEY, where she engraves screenshots from platforms such as TikTok into smartphone displays, confronting them with paradoxical calls to action. The result is a reflection on the equivalence and interchangeability of social media content—where information, advertising, fake news, and AI-generated images merge into a single, continuous stream. Ebert's works expose the underlying structures and visual codes that shape how we experience digital imagery today.

In her work "Weird Stars", Sabrina Labis takes as her starting point a collection of amateur YouTube videos gathered over several years. In these recordings, laypeople attempt to document allegedly unusual celestial phenomena while narrating their own interpretations off-screen before sharing them online. Labis weaves these digital fragments into her own constellation, creating a space of negotiation where questions of perception, truth, and imagination intersect with the formation of conspiracy myths and fake news. With "Weird Certificates", Labis extends her reflections: for each amateur video, she purchases a star online and displays its accompanying certificate. These documents retroactively lend the recordings an absurd credibility, revealing how facts can be performatively produced in a digitally networked world.

The exhibition is part of the official program for the Vorspiel of transmediale 2026.

Artist Talk: 07.02.2026, 6 pm
Finissage: Sa, 28.02.2026, 6 pm