Untold Narratives – A Seductive Echo

In Roman Mythology, the nymph Echo falls in love with Narcissus, a beautiful youth who rejects her love, and instead becomes infatuated with his own reflection. Echo is cursed to lose her speech yet eager to express her longing. She repeats Narcissus’ words until the repetition becomes a language of her own. Meanwhile, Narcissus beholds his own reflection, an image he fails to recognize as his own.

Untold Narratives - A Seductive Echo probes the connection between language and self-perception. The experiences of traversing spatial, temporal, and linguistic terrains often come with the imperative of adopting a borrowed tongue. The artists in this exhibition contend with the limits and potentials of language manifested in misinterpretation, abstraction, and slippages. Their works render distorted and fragmented expressions of the self as mediated by popular culture, new technologies, experiences of isolation, and displacement. As we attempt to navigate the images of ourselves through various paradigms of meaning-making, we utter Echo and Narcissus in one breath, with repetition and soliloquy.

CURATOR

Michelle Song

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Roni Aviv | Sara Rahmanian | Nooshin Rostami | Nic Villarosa | Lau Wai | Ari Wolff | Tin Wai Wong
 

EVENTS

• Opening Reception | Wednesday, January 18th, 6:00 - 8:00 PM 

• Public Program | Wednesday, February 8th, 6:00 - 8:00 PM 

• Closing Reception | Wednesday, February 22nd, 6:00 - 8:00 PM RSVP HERE

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EXHIBITION SNAPSHOT

Vistors view "Manifesto" by Tin Wai Wong.

Visitor views "The Melting Armour" by Lau Wai.

Visitor views "Internal Garden" by Nic Villarosa.

Vistor views "Small Talk" by Roni Aviv.

View of attendees at Opening Reception.

Group photo of featured artists and guests.