Echo’s Bones/Were Turned to Stone, 2020

In Echo's Bones/Were Turned to Stone you lie with headphones on a hand-knotted wool carpet designed by the artist.
Punished by the goddess Juno, the loquacious nymph Echo can now only repeat what other people say. Lonely and abandoned, she dies in a cave. Her bones turn to stone, but her voice lives on and doubles every sound.

In Echo's Bones/Were Turned to Stone you hear a female character who seems to be trying to put her thoughts in order in an anaphoric way, an endless chain of associations, references and facts. She is fascinated by short anecdotes from the lifes of dead artists, writers, actors, singers, film directors and composers such as Georgia O’Keeffe, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Samuel Beckett, Berthe Morisot, Erik Satie, Delphine Seyrig, Mary Wollstonecraft, Lina Bo Bardi, Honoré de Balzac, Hilma af Klint, Edgar Allan Poe, Ovid, and numerous others. 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. As long as she speaks, she exists.

Hand knotted carpet, wool and bamboo silk, 270 x 90 cm; sound piece, headphone, English spoken, 210’, loop