The original inspiration for the art installation “ECHOES” dates back to several years ago. For most artists, the creative process, i.e. the journey towards the end result of an artwork, is profoundly significant and of high emotional value, as it encompasses their thought process and reveals their inner world. Hence, it is that much more important if this process manages to reach the souls of the viewers.

This is precisely what I am aspiring to achieve through the installation ECHOES. I am using the term “echo” in a metaphorical sense, meaning the recounting of the chronicle of a creation. Just as automatic writing in poetry is not merely a random listing of words but rather a reflection of the poet's inner truth, so is the wiping of the brush, with one color next to—or over—the other an unconscious, but not at all random, act of the painter, indeed an act that immediately transmutes into the composition of an artwork. It is an aesthetic combination that is deeply rooted in the artist’s soul, loyally serving art’s objective and substance, which is to stir up feelings. New painting compositions are freely born, unmediated and unconstrained by the rules of logic, acting as parallel stories, intrinsically linked to the artistic end result. A composition born of other compositions, like an echo reverberating the narrative of their story.

In this installation, I have created a sort of sculpture by using the pieces of cloth with which, over the past 10 years, I have been wiping off my brushes and spatulas when painting. These rags have been individually photographed, isolating specific parts of them that act as new painting compositions in and of themselves. These compositions have then been compiled in a video that is projected on a screen. The screening aims to help viewers notice the new painting compositions that have emerged on the rags, while also displayed in the same exhibition space are paintings serving as the “end products” of the artistic process. The ultimate objective of the coexistence of live artworks on display and on-screen images is to instigate a discourse between “process” and “end result,” so that viewers may form their own impression by interactively participating in the installation.