Playing on the micro nuances of dealing with echoes that remain in us, where transformation begins, shaping both personal and collective consciousness, whether in a reverberation of stories that express unresolved pasts or in the latent now tracing the contours of change as it ripples through memory and imagination.
Echos are neither linear nor predictable; it is a process marked by tension, release, and the subtle interplay of opposites and beginnings.

In this exhibition, artists trace the lingering echoes within themselves, channeling unresolved histories, shifting identities, and emerging possibilities into their work. A constellation of practices that move between hard and soft, rough and delicate, material and immaterial.

As the festival unfolds in every room, each artwork becomes a glimpse, as a visitor's invitation witnessing a question and an act of breathing new life into forgotten stories, making the invisible visible, these artists invite us to pause and consider the myriad ways transformation shapes our inner and outer worlds.

The exhibition space is a dialogue and transformation on personal histories, collective memory, material metamorphosis, and conceptual reimagining. For some, transformation is a quiet, internal process; for others, it’s a public gesture of making and unmaking.

Curator: Alaa Alkurdi
Co-curator: Aftab Maher

Artists:

Elham Hadian, www.elhamhadian.com
Iklim Dogan, iklimdogan.net
Kweku Okokroko, www.kwekuokokroko.com
Alaa Alkurdi, www.alaaalkurdi.com
In Sequence, an orchestral portrait, Alaa Alkurdi 2026, Series, mixed media on concrete paper, 24 pieces, 25x25cm
The wall installation attempts to reflect on the nature of the self as a susceptible material for present narratives that exist to impart through concrete structures of predefined ideas to influence decision and autonomy of the self.