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Echo's Answer, the title of this exhibition, encompasses a contradiction. Since an echo is a repetition, a resonance of a sound or something that was said before, it cannot be an answer. Yet, perhaps, in the resonance of repetition a visceral answer may hide. In its ritualistic, almost shamanistic repetition, thoughts are echoed and embedded.
Lysandre Begijn’s imagery references an at times archaic visual register which echoes Greek mythology as well as Cretan and Etruscan art. Although it is tempting to recognise Minoan priestesses (Minoan Electricity), Medusas or other idolised women, …