Digital monuments - An Additional Layer

On 5 March 2026, Digital Monuments was presented, an artistic dialogue between Lena Trapp and Love Antell (SE), in collaboration with the Swedish Arts Grants Committee.

Through video projections and XR works, the exhibition explores how monuments can evolve from static structures to fluid and changing forms.

This project reached a new dimension thanks to the collaboration of Masahiro Yamaguchi, co-founder and CEO of STYLY. Beyond facilitating access to their space computing platform, Masahiro conducted a personalized mentorship process with both artists. This synergy with Masahiro Yamaguchi allowed the artists to explore the capabilities of STYLY’s space computing platform, culminating in the creation of an innovative Mixed Reality (MR) application developed entirely in just two days.

During the residency, Lena Trapp also became the first artist to use ESPRONCEDA’s new creation space and Bambu Lab 3D printer, creating a physical version of her digital sculpture.

This technological integration marks a turning point in our relationship with heritage: this field relates not only to the monuments we have already inherited, but also to the process of building the next generation of digital monuments.
Cultural memory through digital monuments implies a profound shift: from the idea of permanence and a tangible work that rises above us, towards the conception of non-static monuments, in constant transformation and flow.

Digital Monuments responds to both the official and the unofficial, to what is pointed out and to the untold stories that constitute the ideas of a place. In this intersection between memory, technology and representation, the exhibition offers a reflection on how collective narratives are configured in the digital age.

About the artworks

Deconstruction of Nothingness (2024) | Animation

A black unicorn rests motionlessly on the sea floor, at a threshold where myth, matter and stillness converge. The work explores an oceanic temporality, where dissolution is not perceived as an end, but as a continuous and pausing process of transformation.

Monument of the Tide (2021) | Animacion
In this piece, a shell slowly spins in space like a mechanical clock, functioning as a fragile and ephemeral refuge. His constant movement suggests a silent countdown, capturing the tension between protection and vulnerability inherent in his form.

Frozen in motion (2026) | 3D printer
This work materializes the digital rotation of the shell in a tangible physical object. Produced in ESPRONCEDA’s Maker Space, the sculpture freezes movement into a state of absolute stillness, succeeding in stopping time at a precise moment of its countdown.

Digital Monuments (2026) | XR Experience
An immersive environment where monuments manifest themselves as unstable and changing forms. Through organic portals and artifacts that seem extracted from another era, the experience proposes a new vision of the monument: a fluid, fragmented entity in constant digital metamorphosis.

About the artists

Lena Trapp (born 1974) is a visual artist based in Gothenburg, Sweden. He works mainly with sculptures, installations and moving images, creating immersive environments where physical and digital elements intersect. Through themes such as identity, corporeality and relationships, Trapp moves between the human and the artificial, the material and the virtual. His works are characterized by a strong physical presence in which organic forms merge with industrial materials. His practice explores indoor and outdoor spaces where layers of time, memory and perception intersect, asking questions about how, in times of increasing technology, we perceive ourselves and our place in the world.

Love Antell (born 1980) is a multimedia artist, illustrator and music artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. Creates digital experiences as public art for urban development projects and museums, exploring the relationship between digital media and cultural memory. She leads an artistic research project affiliated with the Institute of Future Studies that addresses the digitalization of existing monuments with a dissonant cultural heritage, questioning how historical narratives are reinterpreted and remodelled in contemporary digital contexts.

Tech Partners

Masahiro Yamaguchi is the co-founder and CEO of STYLY, Inc. With experience spanning management of publicly traded companies, engineering studies at MIT and entrepreneurship, he is building STYLY as a platform for the age of space computing, connecting digital experiences to real-world space.

STYLY is a space layer platform for the “Space Computing” era, connecting digital and physical domains. The platform allows the creation and distribution of digital content aimed at both public layers in urban spaces and installations as well as personal layers around the individual. They have a global community of over 100,000 creators, with more than 200,000 digital content distributed. Offers a diverse range of digital content, including art, music, fashion and videos, submitted by creators worldwide.