Echoic
Exhibition Details:
Echoic (2020) is a result of a long-term research and self-reflection about memory and space. About the artist’s relationship with the spaces she lived in since childhood and their inner memories. These memories, subsisted in a plurality of matters: in objects, in photographs or in documents. Either, in the memory that she had from the houses divisions. They were in their essence visual memories. This time a new sensory memory was added: an echoic memory made of sounds which inhabit objects. A sensory memory which records specific auditory informations.
Almost since the beginning of her life, the artist often revisited the same coastal region although different beaches. However, with the same involuntary act of collecting shells and with the innocent intention and believe of bringing a small piece of the ocean to home. That was not a random souvenir. It was created by Nature and it preserves all of its characteristics. It preserves a sound from its habitat, which is audible when it is close to the ear.
At that point, the two subcategories of sensory memory – the iconic and the echoic – intersect.
Featuring:
Ana Loureiro (Portugal, 1991) is an interdisciplinary artist who currently lives and works in Vienna, Austria. Between 2009 and 2013, she studied Fine Arts - painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto University. During the last semester of her degree, she attended the figurative painting class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under the guidance of the Professor Silke Otto-Knapp. In Vienna, she was a member and curator of two art collectives named Friday Exit (2014-2016) and Mz*Baltazar’s Lab (2017-2021), broadening her knowledge and experience in the city's Art and Cultural scene.