The Berlin-based artist Hans Hemmert (* 1960, Hollstadt) has been addressing the contemporary version of veneration of devotional objects for years. This time, taking the title (ego sum via), he explores the modern resurgence of Christian symbolism. (Ich bin der Weg, die Wahrheit und das Leben [14,6].Ich bin der Weinstock und ihr seid die Reben [15,1]) (I am the way, the truth and the life[14,6]. I am the vine and you are the grapes[15,1]) is a montage bringing together a ghetto blaster and John the Evangelist. The ironic re-staging with a gaudy yellow industrial varnish finish is apparently rooted in the notion of combining elements that actually do not belong together at all. Pop encounters the figure of the saint to make cultural processes of displacement visible through the yellow overmarking. Rappers are today’s street preachers, with John the Evangelist being the first such figure in Christian cultural history.