ECHOES is a long-term artistic research project that began as an idea in 2010 and was first partially presented in Athens in 2020. Since then, parts of the project have been presented at the Trento Art Festival (2022), at Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello in Venice (2024), and at MUST Museo Storico, Lecce (2025).
The installation explores whether artistic creation is defined solely by the end product of a painting, or whether it also includes the entire process that leads to it, a continuum shaped by thoughts, gestures, perception, and inner reflection. The term ECHOES is used metaphorically to describe this expanded narrative of creation itself.
Within this framework, the act of wiping brushes onto work cloths, although often unconscious, is never entirely random. Each gesture carries an aesthetic dimension in its own right, rooted in the artist’s sensibility, and inseparable from the emotional intention of painting itself.
From these gestures, new compositions emerge freely, unmediated by strict logic, acting as parallel narratives intrinsically connected to the final pictorial outcome. In this sense, they function as extensions of the creative process rather than secondary residues.
Over time, fragments of cloth used for wiping brushes and spatulas have been collected and transformed into sculptural forms. When photographed and isolated, these fragments evolve into autonomous works, each carrying its own visual reference and narrative presence.
The compositions are presented on a screen, inviting visitors to stand between the light emitted by the projector and the surface of projection. In this space, their shadows intervene in the image, generating shifting layers of perception, presence, and meaning.
Reflective questions accompany the video, prompting viewers to reconsider the boundaries between seeing and remembering, creating and perceiving. Through this interaction, attention is drawn to how these residual traces acquire autonomy and function as independent works.
And isn’t the human “shadow” always intervening between words and objects? Somewhere between the story we write and the story we craft lies the story of the self…
