Tiergarten, Berlin
Group Exhibition
Echo's Hunger
Schiefe ZähneEyrie Alzate, Terry Atkinson, Phung-Tien Phan, Maria Toumazou, Tanja Widmann Cursed to repeat the words of others, Ovid’s Echo is never able to articulate herself fully, constructing a Self only through fragments of the language around her. In a tale of fractured subjectivity, repetition, and unfulfilled desire, the Lacanian ‘I’ lingers as a fiction, slipping between presence and misrecognition. Echo’s Hunger examines how art, while positioned as a site of potential critique, paradoxically remains entangled with capitalist ontological structures, continuously reproducing the very subjectivity it seeks to challenge. The artists brought together in this exhibition engage with the instability of images, languages and objects and the ways in which meaning shifts through repurposing, repetition, and decay. A psychoanalytic dilemma gives way to a materialist response: an approach that understands art not as static, but as a juncture within the cycles of circulation and detritus on which the fundamentals of a market-driven subjectivity depend. Like the “I”, the art object is never fixed, but malleable, a flickering presence that both resists and succumbs to the forces that shape it.