Echoes of our lives | Opening Event

Opening event: 28-9-23 From 15.00 til 18.00.

The exhibition will run from 28-9-24 until 01-12-24.

Capturing the transient and orchestrating a symphony of memories and impressions. The process of creating and reading an art piece involves an interplay of the personal and the technical. Consciously or subconsciously, we apply our impressions, memories, and knowledge, when interacting with an artwork. 

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The creation of an artwork is an imitation or an impression of the original moment or thought. Similarly, the reading of an art piece will always be manipulated by one’s own memories, impressions, and knowledge. We can understand the process of interacting with art as a cave
full of echoes. 

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An echo is a sonic representation of time passage in the present moment. Resulting from the sound waves bouncing off of hard surfaces, the noises that reverberate in the echo are both the past and the present. The presence of an echo indicates that a word has been said, they signal to the past. But it also brings the past into the present as each echo happens in its own moment, but is a distorted imitation of the original word said in the past. 

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The artworks chosen for this exhibition are paintings and photographs. Each piece is a representation or an impression of a feeling or a moment in time. Just like the original noise which forms the echoes, the moment or feeling that inspires the paintings is born and dead in the same moment that it happens. In capturing these fleeting moments, the medium of a visual artwork entraps it into a static being on the canvas. 

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Because an artwork is always done with a perspective, the artist is, knowingly or unknowingly, employing their feelings and knowledge during the production of the pieces. The final result thus becomes an impression or an imitation of the real experience, as the fixed nature of the work can never capture the fleeting moment itself. Much like an echo, the final product distorts the original into something else, but in that way it becomes a new original itself.  

Viewing an artwork is building off of the echoes of the artist. Whenever a person views an artwork, their brains, inadvertently or intentionally, form connections with their memories, knowledge, or just abstract ideas. It is a natural process that does not require any schooling of the arts. For this exhibition, we wish our visitors to imagine that any thoughts they have when viewing a piece are the echoes of the artworks. They become a new, and sometimes even an unrecognizable version, of the point of origin which they sprung from. 

The experience of an art work, and the creation process itself, is a work of memory. Every time that the same moment from the past is remembered, or the same artwork viewed multiple times, the connections --the echoes--  will keep changing and multiplying. The interpretations of your interpretations will also keep changing.

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The choice to call this exhibition “The Echoes of Our Lives; is that the pieces deal with the impressions of the artists’ lives. Whether it is their emotions or the things around them, creating these  works involves employing techniques, memories, understandings (consciously or subconsciously) from their lives too, thus involving other echoes. The viewers add their own memories and understandings, interpretations and impressions of the artworks, thus they are also adding new echoes to the cave.

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So let our voices merge together, viewer and artist alike, through the aid of these dynamic artworks, and create a beautiful symphony of echoes at UNKnowN.

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