Awarded a DA2 Open Commission, Martin Rieser has created Understanding Echo, an interactive installation that re-awakens the mythological figure from the Echo and Narcissus myth.

In the centre of a darkened room hang a number of translucent coloured panels comprising large illuminated photographic montages, free-hanging over a diamond-shaped floorplan.

In the centre is a shallow circular pool of water in which a womans face is flickering, submerged below the surface. The woman is middle aged and, from time to time, talks slowly in short poetic fragments. As the audience get nearer to the pool these spoken fragments become ever more personal.