VIOLETTE BULE

AN INTRODUCTION TO VIOLETTE BULE’S "ECHO CHAMBER”
by Surpik Angelini

Jacques Derrida sees the myth of Narcissus and Echo as the relation between light and speech. He goes on to explain that according to the myth, Echo and Narcissus are cursed by blindness. Blindness that cannot render “otherness” beyond self-reflection in a pool of light… blindness that does not render a distinct voice beyond spoken repetition.

It is a tragic entanglement, entrapped in a Narcissistic echo chamber, haunted by an engrossed self-image and loud soliloquies. The Echo Chamber, “The Promised Land” where the Other is banished forever, its Edenic beauty defaced beyond recognition.
Violette Bule’s “Echo Chamber” is a requiem to Narcissus, who dies a thousand deaths in the broken mirrors of oblivion.

PDF Catalogue SUBVERSIVE ECHOES, A REVIEW BY IRINA TROCONIS
Ph.D., Cornell University

Video

Produced by Transart Foundation for Art and Anthropology about the work in process for the exhibition Echo Chamber.
Directed by Beatriz Bellorin, November 2020.