{"product_id":"he-laughs-at-my-jokes-rebecca-j-stephany-c-1994","title":"Within Rage Lunar Lunatic, The Vortex, Within Terror Losing Life - Rebecca J. 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Stephany, c. 1994\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003carticle dir=\"auto\" class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full focus:outline-none [--shadow-height:45px] has-data-writing-block:pointer-events-none has-data-writing-block:-mt-(--shadow-height) has-data-writing-block:pt-(--shadow-height) [\u0026amp;:has([data-writing-block])\u0026gt;*]:pointer-events-auto scroll-mt-[calc(var(--header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-10 [--thread-content-margin:--spacing(4)] @w-sm\/main:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(6)] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(16)] px-(--thread-content-margin)\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col grow\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal [.text-message+\u0026amp;]:mt-1\" dir=\"auto\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[1px]\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full wrap-break-word dark markdown-new-styling\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col grow\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal [.text-message+\u0026amp;]:mt-1\" dir=\"auto\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[1px]\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full wrap-break-word dark markdown-new-styling\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-end=\"542\" data-start=\"22\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"94\" data-start=\"22\"\u003eWithin Rage Lunar Lunatic, The Vortex, and Within Terror Losing Life\u003c\/strong\u003e operates as a compact psychological triptych, using small scale not as a compressed state of chaos. Each sculpture measures \u003cstrong data-end=\"246\" data-start=\"226\"\u003e4.5 x 4.5 inches\u003c\/strong\u003e and extends roughly \u003cstrong data-end=\"284\" data-start=\"267\"\u003e2 inches deep\u003c\/strong\u003e, giving the works the feeling of miniature chambers or emotional reliquaries. Their square wooden supports frame each image like a sealed container, while the dark recessed interiors create the sense that each form has been pressed inward, held, or trapped.\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"994\" data-start=\"544\"\u003eOn the left, \u003cstrong data-end=\"586\" data-start=\"557\"\u003eWithin Rage Lunar Lunatic\u003c\/strong\u003e presents a curled figure folded tightly into itself. Rather than depicting rage as outward violence, the work turns rage inward. The body is clenched, protected, and almost stone-like, as if anger has become a physical posture. The “lunar” quality comes through in the pale, cratered surface of the figure, suggesting a body illuminated by harsh internal light or worn down by cycles of emotional intensity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1492\" data-start=\"996\"\u003eAt the center, \u003cstrong data-end=\"1025\" data-start=\"1011\"\u003eThe Vortex\u003c\/strong\u003e shifts from figure to force. The body disappears and is replaced by a circular, spiraling mass, making the middle work feel like the emotional engine of the triptych. It reads as both void and movement: a gravitational center that pulls the two surrounding figures into states of contraction. Its placement between the two bodies gives the sequence a narrative structure, as though rage, fear, and psychic disorientation are all orbiting the same destructive center.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1955\" data-start=\"1494\"\u003eOn the right, \u003cstrong data-end=\"1537\" data-start=\"1508\"\u003eWithin Terror Losing Life\u003c\/strong\u003e returns to the body, but this figure feels more depleted than the one on the left. The form is bent over, almost collapsed, with the pale surface pressing against the dark enclosure. If the left sculpture shows a figure bracing against rage, the right suggests a figure being consumed by terror. The title’s phrase “losing life” gives the posture a chilling vulnerability; the body is not simply hiding, but receding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"2551\" data-start=\"1957\"\u003eTogether, the three works create a movement from \u003cstrong data-end=\"2014\" data-start=\"2006\"\u003erage\u003c\/strong\u003e, to \u003cstrong data-end=\"2034\" data-start=\"2019\"\u003edissolution\u003c\/strong\u003e, to \u003cstrong data-end=\"2049\" data-start=\"2039\"\u003eterror\u003c\/strong\u003e. The repeated square format gives the triptych order and discipline, while the handmade surfaces resist neatness. The exposed wood grain, small fasteners, darkened cavities, and rough sculptural modeling all contribute to the sense that these are not decorative objects but contained emotional states. Their intimacy is essential: they ask the viewer to come close, to look into each small chamber, and to confront emotions that are often too large, too private, or too uncomfortable to name directly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"2551\" data-start=\"1957\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n-\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(114, 58, 150);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJonathan Flike\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/article\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(81, 185, 217);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 1163.2px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 100%; height: 1163.2px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(81, 185, 217);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Artist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-end=\"788\" data-start=\"21\"\u003eRebecca Stephany is an artist, designer, educator, and researcher whose practice moves fluidly between graphic design, installation, sculpture, video, performance, writing, curating, and printed matter. She has served as Professor for Graphic Design in the Visual Communication Program at Kunsthochschule Kassel since 2021. Stephany studied Art and Graphic Design at the Offenbach University of Art and Design and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam, later completing an MFA in Critical Studies at the Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam. She has also received notable research and residency support, including a Rijksakademie Amsterdam scholarship from 2010–2011 and a Designer-in-Residence position at CSS Bard in New York in 2013. \u003cspan data-state=\"closed\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1362\" data-start=\"790\"\u003eStephany’s work is difficult to confine to a single discipline, which is central to its importance. Kunsthochschule Kassel describes her practice as one that deliberately moves between commissions and self-initiated projects, using print, installation, video, performance, text, and curatorial work to question the presumed boundaries between “autonomous” and “applied” art. Her work is often driven by feminist criticality, research, archival inquiry, and what she has called an “undisciplined” approach to design and visual culture. \u003cspan data-state=\"closed\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1974\" data-start=\"1364\"\u003eHer 2018 project \u003cstrong data-end=\"1406\" data-start=\"1381\"\u003e200 Sisters Souvenirs\u003c\/strong\u003e is a strong example of this approach. Developed for the 200-year anniversary of Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe, the project examined the institution’s catalogue archive from a feminist perspective, transforming archival research into a publication, modified second-hand garments, and souvenir-like objects. Through methods of uncovering, misreading, zooming-in, weaving, and bleach-as-printing, Stephany turned historical material into wearable and usable objects that addressed visibility, erasure, and feminist inheritance. \u003cspan data-state=\"closed\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"2552\" data-start=\"1976\"\u003eIn \u003cstrong data-end=\"2051\" data-start=\"1979\"\u003eWithin Rage Lunar Lunatic, The Vortex, and Within Terror Losing Life\u003c\/strong\u003e, Stephany’s interest in the body, material meaning, and psychological compression appears in a more intimate sculptural form. Each small wall sculpture operates like a contained emotional chamber, using wood, relief, darkness, and bodily abstraction to explore states of rage, instability, terror, and disappearance. The triptych reflects the same intelligence found across Stephany’s broader practice: an ability to turn objects into carriers of research, feeling, critique, and embodied experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(81, 185, 217);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUnderrepresented Artist Information\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-end=\"3142\" data-start=\"2588\"\u003eRebecca Stephany’s work matters because it resists the categories that often determine visibility in the art market. She is not easily pinned down as “designer,” “artist,” “educator,” or “researcher,” and that refusal can make her work harder to place within conventional collecting systems. Yet this is precisely where her significance lies. Stephany’s practice questions the hierarchy between applied and autonomous art, between intellectual research and physical object, between feminist critique and visual pleasure. \u003cspan data-state=\"closed\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"3596\" data-start=\"3144\"\u003eAs a woman working across design, art, education, and feminist research, Stephany’s practice also challenges the historically male-coded idea of the singular artistic genius. In an interview with \u003cem data-end=\"3356\" data-start=\"3340\"\u003eIt’s Nice That\u003c\/em\u003e, she described her feminist design activism as a refusal of discriminatory narratives around the “star-designer” and an insistence on multiple subjectivities, design principles, and working strategies. \u003cspan data-state=\"closed\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-is-only-node=\"\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-end=\"4244\" data-start=\"3598\"\u003eThis triptych is especially compelling because it shows a quieter, more collectible side of an artist whose public record is often framed through design, pedagogy, and research-based projects. \u003cstrong data-end=\"3863\" data-start=\"3791\"\u003eWithin Rage Lunar Lunatic, The Vortex, and Within Terror Losing Life\u003c\/strong\u003e preserves emotional intensity at miniature scale. The works are small, but not slight; they ask for close looking and reward the viewer with a deeply human encounter with fear, rage, collapse, and survival. For Visard, Stephany represents the kind of artist whose importance becomes clearer when the boundaries around art, design, objecthood, and authorship are allowed to loosen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 71.2px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 100%; height: 71.2px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(81, 185, 217);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCustom Shipping Notice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eN\/A\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 250.6px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 100%; height: 250.6px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(81, 185, 217);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInformation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStyle: Modern\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSubject: Figure\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYear: 1994\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSize: 4.5 x 4.5 x 2 in (11.43 x 11.43 x 5.08 cm)\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMedium: Mixed media\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaterial: Wood, ceramic, metal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSignature: Signed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCirculation status: One of a kind\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrame Status: Unframed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 244px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 100%; height: 244px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(81, 185, 217);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVintage Condition Disclaimer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003ePlease note that this item is vintage and shows wear consistent with age, use, and history. Signs of wear may include, but are not limited to, minor surface marks, patina, fading, or imperfections typical of older items. All items are sold\u003cstrong\u003e as-is\u003c\/strong\u003e, which is standard with vintage and pre-owned goods and cannot be returned on the basis of condition. Measurements are approximate. We do our best to describe items accurately; however, condition assessments are subjective. If you would like additional details, images, or clarification before purchasing, please contact us through the contact form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(81, 185, 217);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpecial Condition Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome back wear, but not visible when hung.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 250.433px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 100%; height: 250.433px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(81, 185, 217);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance*\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1994\u003c\/strong\u003e: Rebecca J. 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