The sixth edition of the Art Encounters Biennial unfolds under the title Bounding Histories. Whispering Tales., a curatorial proposition shaped by a close reading of Timișoara’s urban fabric and its layered histories. Curated by Ana Janevski and Tevž Logar, the Biennial activates three exhibition venues—the Garrison Command (a former military building), FABER (a repurposed factory), and the Art Encounters Foundation (a former kindergarten)—as living witnesses to the city’s social, cultural, and political transformations.
In reflecting on what these places are telling us today, and how they can be occupied in a context of an international art exhibition, the concept of the echo guided the curatorial and artistic approaches of this edition. Considered as a sound that is both repetition and altered response, an echo is an agent of change and creativity shaped by its environment, a signal of relation rather than direct transmission, As both metaphor and method, the echo prompts thus new connections between artworks, the exhibition sites, and audiences.