Name of Artwork and artist:

L’Echo by Su-Mei Tsu

Why were you drawn to this work?

At first I didn’t really get the concept of the work. At first I thought it was a video with almost no movement. Also, because the colors were so saturated, I thought the background wasn’t real and the person was just putted in front of that view with computer program. But after I read about the work, I understood the concept behind it.

How is TIME communicated?

The artist is playing the cello in front of a cliff, and the landscape itself creates echoing sound. After making some sound with her cello, the artist waits for few seconds, and the viewers can hear the echo of the music. In this work, TIME is communicated through the repetition of the sound and the act of waiting for the echo after playing the sound.It almost look like the man-made object (cello) and the nature is having a conversation in order to understand each other.

How are the method, materials and approaches used reinforce the ideas the artist is conveying?

The artist actually went to the scenery in order to get the environment that will create echo. The contrast between colors os the environment and the color of the artist’s dress separates the figure from the landscape.

3 questions?

I want to ask the artist how it felt like when she played cello front of that magnificent scenery.

Was it intentional to feel the room itself with the echoing sound of the cello instead of using headphones like the other works in the gallery did?

what was the reason of choosing cello instead of other instruments?