The Longest Echo
Exhibition at Goolugatup Heathcote, 2024

Artists: Mayma Awaida, Emilie Monty

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The Longest Echo is an iterative work which first took shape as an artist residency at the Commonwealth of New Bayswater Post Office as a publicly accessible exchange that traded tattoos (designed and made by Awaida) for voice-note offerings (collected and edited by Monty).

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As their residency unfolded, likewise did the journey of the artwork: designs inspired by the artist’s own ceramic practice were translated into visual scratchings on the participant, who in turn left a sensory marking of their own as a voice recording, born anew as anonymous USB letters in the hands of the recipient. 

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In its exhibition format, The Longest Echo returns to its material origins of ceramics and audio recordings and posits the gallery space as an imaginary world; a place where each of the voice offerings can find a home and sustain their fantastical potential.

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Image Credits: Emma Daisy

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