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Echo’s Bones/Were Turned to Stone, 2020
Installation. Handknit rug in wool and bamboo silk,
audio in English, wall speakers.
Duration: 210', in loop
Voice: Caroline Daish

The rug evokes the idea of an open grave, a sarcophagus or a marble tombstone. In the black colored center there’s a quotation from Ovid's Metamorphoses which gives its title to the work. As told by Ovid, Echo is a loquacious mountain nymph, who is punished by the goddess Juno, depriving her of speech, so that she can only repeat what others say. Lonely and abandoned, Eco dies in a cave. Her bones turn to stone, but her voice lives on and doubles every sound.

In the installation, one hears the voice of a female character who seems to organize her thoughts into a chain of endless anaphoric associations, references and facts: a collage of short anecdotes about the lives and deaths of artists, writers, actors, singers, artist’s models, film directors and composers. A procession of the dead, whose art has survived at best, and who here, through the continuity of lore, are briefly brought back into life. Her countless enumerations alternate with sighs and groans, which then turn into factual descriptions of the functioning of the human body or the condition of the planet. Seemingly unconnected stories begin to form patterns. As long as she speaks, she exists.


go to Incantations (Double Double), 2017