"Echoes of Love" is a sound installation that interrogates the legendary Well of Love at Trenčín Castle. According to the tale, a young Turkish nobleman, Omar, dug through solid rock for three years to free his beloved Fatima from captivity. But beneath this romantic narrative lies a harsher truth: the brutal labor of unnamed diggers, the violence of stone breaking under iron, and the exchange of human suffering for power.

The installation recreates the relentless percussion of metal striking stone—a mechanical pickaxe hammering in real time, as if the well is still being carved. Contact microphones capture each strike. The sound travels through 100 meters of cable to transducers mounted on a limestone block in the castle cellar, making the stone itself resonate with the memory of labor. Visitors feel the impact in their bodies, hearing the castle walls speak of work that was both devotion and exploitation.

The immersive soundscape asks: whose labor built this legend? What stories does the stone remember that the romance obscures? By making the violence of digging visceral and present, the installation transforms Trenčín Castle into a space where love and power, memory and erasure, resound together.