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 investigates whether artistic creation is solely about the end product of a painting, or whether it encompasses the entire journey leading to that outcome — a process reflecting the artist’s thoughts, gestures, and inner reflections. The term ECHOES is used metaphorically to describe the narrative of creation itself. The act of wiping brushes onto work cloths, though often unconscious, is never entirely random. Each gesture constitutes an aesthetic expression in its own right, rooted in the artist’s sensibility and serving the fundamental purpose of art: to evoke emotion.

From these gestures, new compositions emerge freely, unmediated by logic, acting as parallel narratives intrinsically linked to the final artistic outcome, echoing the creative process itself. As part of the project, fragments of cloth used for wiping brushes and spatulas over a ten-year period have been transformed into a sculptural form. Photographed and isolated, these fragments evolve into autonomous artworks, each carrying its own reference and distinct narrative.

The compositions are presented on a screen, inviting visitors to stand between the light emitted by the projector and the screen. In this way, their shadows intervene in the medium, generating new layers of meaning and self-expression. Reflective questions accompany the video, prompting viewers to reconsider the boundaries between seeing and remembering, creating and perceiving, while drawing attention to the way these residues 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…