ARE WE HEARING THE WORLD OR OURSELVES…SELVES…
Kate Callangan
Dan Mendoza
Carlos José Camus
Timo Ambo
Maria Lina Losloso
Opens September 13, 2025
Runs until October 4, 2025
ANIMA Art Space
19 R. Nepomuceno St., BF Homes,
Holy Spirit, Quezon City, PH 1127
The echo chamber has become one of the defining metaphors of our time. Born in digital networks but stretching far beyond them, it marks a condition where repetition replaces dialogue, where familiar voices drown out dissent, and where belief hardens into certainty. Its effects are not abstract: they surface in social division, political polarization, and the growing difficulty of sustaining collective life.
This exhibition takes the echo chamber not only as subject but also as method. It asks how listening has changed under conditions of constant return. Do we still register difference, or have we trained ourselves to hear only the confirmation of what we already know?
The participating artists—Kate Callangan, Dan Mendoza, Carlos José Camus, Timo Ambo, and Maria Lina Losloso—approach this tension through practices that foreground the fragility of perception. Their works do not resolve the problem; instead, they amplify its stakes. Repetition slips, silence gains weight, and resonance unsettles rather than reassures.
In a time shaped by echo chambers and growing polarization, this exhibition asks whether we are truly hearing the world—or only the reverberation of ourselves.
To listen, then, is never passive. It is an act that shapes the world we inhabit. If we only ever hear ourselves, we risk deepening our isolation. But if we learn to listen differently—to stay with silence, with discomfort, with contradiction—we may begin to hear beyond the walls of our own echo.
