The audiovisual artist Anna Kasperska will take part in the residency "The Echoes of Wrocław". Anna is a graduate of the Faculty of Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and the Intercollegiate Multimedia specialization at the UMFC. She also completed the Studio Prób, a directing course at the Wajda School. She also studied Visual Communication at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. Winner of the Panavision award in the Papaya Young Directors 2017 competition. Scholarship holder of the Minister of Education and the City of Warsaw. Author of documentaries and feature films: "Together, written separately", "Farewell to the Summer", "Bridge", "Between" and sound installations. "Wrocław's Reverb" is to be a continuation of the artist's research project, which she realized the first instalment of the project in Warsaw.

"The Echoes of Wrocław" is a residency realized by the OP ENHEIM Foundation and the Cultural Zone of Wrocław within the framework of the Competition for NGO, which is organized annually as part of the AIR Wro programme. The aim of the project is to look at the changes in the urban audiosphere of Wrocław on the example of three buildings selected by the artist. Kasperska wants to recall and reimagine the sounds that once soaked the walls of buildings, rooms, halls and entire city structures. This is another audio-action of a young artist who brings out the acoustic environment from the tissue of the city and encourages the viewer to notice the audiosphere as a structure not only creating the present landscape but also a structure undergoing transformations, being a perfect research tool as well as a tool for creative expression.

The residency will include interactive sound compositions describing the architectural objects selected by Kasperska: the Oppenheim House, the House of Misses Trzebnicki (Domek Romański) and the Monopol Hotel. These will be specific radio plays, consisting of sounds of everyday life, determined by the functions that these buildings have performed over the centuries. The project selected three locations distinguished by a diverse and multifaceted historical identity. Both Kamienica Oppenheimów, Dom Panien Trzebnickich and Hotel Monopol have performed various public and private functions over the centuries. Their history dates back to the 13th century. Each of these objects emphasizes with its presence historical periods very important for the history of Wrocław - the Trzebnicki Misses House with its Romanesque body refers to the historical beginnings of the city, the history of the construction of the Monopol Hotel refers to the industrial revolution, which redefined the function and structure of the city, while the Oppenheim House - due to the history of the Oppenheim family - emphasizes the history of Wrocław from the first half of the twentieth century, socio-political transformations associated with World War II, as well as the broad context of cultural pluralism in Wrocław. The installation created within the framework of the residence will be presented in OP ENHEIM.