Echoes Exhibition

Dates: 03–12 October 2025
Preview: Friday 03/10, 6 pm
Opening hours: Saturday–Sunday, 11 am – 4 pm
Artists: Anne Grebby | Kara Lyons | Marta Martino | Maryanne Royle | Paul Haywood
Curated by: Monica Pirani
Free entrance

After the success of ÌNSITO (2024) in Schio, which planted the roots of a new international dialogue between communities, artists, and cultural institutions, the project now unfolds into its second chapter: ECHOES (2025). Building on the foundations of ÌNSITO, ECHOES amplifies its resonance, carrying forward the ideas, collaborations, and artistic practices that emerged from the first edition.

The trajectory from roots to resonance embodies the spirit of this visionary program: to create cultural connections that are deeply grounded in local histories and identities, while also expanding outward, reverberating across borders and disciplines. If ÌNSITO represented the seed, the act of planting, and the establishment of a shared ground, ECHOES represents its continuation — the traces, reflections, and reverberations that arise when artistic gestures meet new contexts and audiences.

Conceived as an evolving dialogue rather than a single event, the program highlights the transformative power of contemporary art to foster exchange, reframe heritage, and generate new forms of collective imagination. With ECHOES, the initiative expands its reach, inviting diverse voices to contribute to a living network of resonance, one that grows from its origins yet continuously reinvents itself.

Echoes are not just sounds that return, but traces of memory, gestures, and cultural connections, shaped by a shifting and hybrid new era — that reverberate across time and space into new forms of understanding.

At Gallery FRANK, within the post-industrial landscape of Littleborough, the exhibition becomes both a mirror and a resonant chamber, amplifying the dialogue between individual practices and collective experience. It unfolds as an encounter between perception, memory, and transformation, shaped by five artists whose practices interact with one another across material, place, and sensibility. Here, the echo emerges as a metaphor for connection, resonance, and transformation.

ECHOES is part of a visionary international cultural exchange launched in 2024 with ÌNSITO in Schio (Italy), connecting Greater Manchester and Schio through their shared industrial heritage, vibrant communities, and the transformative power of contemporary art.