Visual Echoes: Counter-Images in the Stream of Pictures. Video, Film, Photography

How do images inscribe themselves into our collective memory—and how do artistic practices reflect the pervasive flows of images that define our era?

The exhibition Visual Echoes presents five large-scale installations incorporating video, film, and photography that engage with the power of media images and the mechanisms of collective visual memory. Using found footage or culturally embedded visual motifs, the artists reference diverse mediascapes spanning analog and digital media, television, cinema, the internet, social networks, advertising, politics, and art. They examine how visual content shapes perception, influences emotion, and forms collective remembrance.

By reflecting on the affective, ideological, and power-laden structures sedimented in today’s image flows, the works propose alternative visual orders. Meaning arises not through linear narrative but through friction, associative montage, mirroring, omission, or formal condensation. As critical visual echoes, the installations challenge dominant visual regimes—with their own rhythms, poetic ruptures, and political acuity. They generate counter-images that engage not only the intellect, but also speak to viewers emotionally and physically. These works create experiential spaces in which our collective image memory is renegotiated—and the act of seeing itself is questioned.