Dreams Wave
Group exhibition at Triumph Gallery, featuring more than 30 artists who have explored and interpreted dreams as a cultural and mental phenomenon, 2020
Moscow
Curator: Polina Mogilina
The exhibition is arranged to convey to the viewer the sensations typically associated with the world of dreams. The exhibition space is a zone where objective reality loses its authority, giving way to reverie. The project participants used various methods to analyze dreams and approached the theme from multiple angles.
For example, Anatoly Akuye drew on the tradition of dream interpretation, while Evgenia Voronova and Ekaterina Tsareva explored the liminal state between sleep and wakefulness as a paranoid sensation of losing touch with reality. For Kristina Aksentova, memories from the past and dreams switch places; for Alexander Dashevsky, on the contrary, visions of the future emerge as if in a recurring dream. The states of déjà vu (Kirill Basalaev) and dream journaling (Anka Akhalaya, Yulia Virko) were reinterpreted.
The artists have created a world of fantastical images (Anna Andrzhievskaya, crocodilePOWER, Roma Peeks), nightmares (Blue Soup, Charlie Aiso), and drifting reveries (Alexander Brodsky, Andrei Berger, Jung-En Chung).