Video installation for one spectator, Bahnhof Ottersberg, Bremen, DE, 2007
One day, when she observed Narcissus wandering in the pathless woods, she loved him and she followed him, with soft and stealthy tread. The more she followed him the hotter did she burn, as when the flame flares upward from the sulphur on the torch. Ovid
The spectator in the role of Echo is watching Nacissus in a projection as well as his or her reflection in the projection of an opporsite mirror. The conversation between Echo and Nacissus is heard over the headphones. As Echo is mute, she can only express herself by an impulse and is consequently reliant on someone to mirror her to have a voice. So is the spectator and Nacissus losing themselfs in there own vision and laments the pain of unreqisited love.
…had called out ‘Is anyone here?’ and ‘Here’ Echo replied. shouts in a loud voice ‘Come to me!’ She calls as he calls. He looks back, and no one appearing behind, asks ‘Why do you run from me?’ and receives the same words as he speaks. He stands still, and deceived by the likeness to an answering voice, says ‘Here, let us meet together’. And, never answering to another sound more gladly, Echo replies ‘Together’, and to assist her words comes out of the woods to put her arms around his neck, in longing. He runs from her, and running cries ‘Away with these encircling hands! May I die before what’s mine is yours.’ She answers, only ‘What’s mine is yours!’ Ovid
