Echoes & Callings - Wiebke Leister

Echoes & Callings is an encounter with angry spirits from Japanese Noh drama and storytelling; women characters, referred to as deranged or jealous, unable to speak for themselves during their human lives. They transform into demons, forced from their bodies; furious ghosts, broken by grief or transfigured by rage, pain, or betrayal. They are encountered through their transformative states, their images returning as ghosts, apparitions, and echoes, seeking revenge and release. Their imaginary genealogy is followed, re-embodied, contradictory, intertextual-speaking of silence and manifestation, distress and embodiment, stillness, and fury; building the crescendo of a single expression, from figuration to abstraction. They conjure another self from their liminal existence as they reveal themselves as terrifying images. They have existed throughout times and cultures. Today, more than ever, their images are recognised as released and untamed. And finally, speaking out.