Anna den Drijver
Anna den Drijver

Echo’s Touch  

About connection, resonance and identity in a time of (digital) distance. 

In a time when we seem to be constantly connected, yet genuine connection often fails to take shape, visual artist and photographer Anna den Drijver compellingly draws on the myth of Echo and Narcissus, a story of longing and unattainability. Echo longed for Narcissus, but he saw only himself, trapped in his own reflection. From this myth, Den Drijver explores in her new work Echo’s Touch what it means to be in contact, with oneself and with others, in a world where image, communication and technology are ever more tightly intertwined.

Echo’s Touch consists of contemplative photographs of hands, threads, birds and nature, all of which explore what contact means, and how longing and touch can be felt and seen. Den Drijver does not understand touch as a boundary, but as entanglement: a resonance between body and world in which subject and object flow into one another.

Echo’s Touch  

About connection, resonance and identity in a time of (digital) distance. 

In a time when we seem to be constantly connected, yet genuine connection often fails to take shape, visual artist and photographer Anna den Drijver compellingly draws on the myth of Echo and Narcissus, a story of longing and unattainability. Echo longed for Narcissus, but he saw only himself, trapped in his own reflection. From this myth, Den Drijver explores in her new work Echo’s Touch what it means to be in contact, with oneself and with others, in a world where image, communication and technology are ever more tightly intertwined.

Echo’s Touch consists of contemplative photographs of hands, threads, birds and nature, all of which explore what contact means, and how longing and touch can be felt and seen. Den Drijver does not understand touch as a boundary, but as entanglement: a resonance between body and world in which subject and object flow into one another.