Chronicles of Dreams Forgotten

Artists see with their feelings and with their dreams, which shape their visions in return. An infinite loop of interpretation and reshaping dives into layers of the soul, conscious and unconscious knowledge of the world, mixed as a new forming reality. This is why artists love their dreams and tell stories about their reminiscences of them. This is why lived and unlived stories are the essence of every shape and layered history they interpret and present.

I met a collector of dreams once who was depositing artists’ dream stories into the archives of a public library. I imagine this as a crazy adventure, dreaming that is, everywhere and for everyone, yet artists choose to take their dreams for a stroll, to give them sometimes the weight of fiction, of a story to contemplate.

In this group exhibition, we gathered works of artists who took reality to a new magical realm. The matter they used was operated on to remove reality, and sometimes give it a new interpretation as a form of storytelling. By removing part of the subject, by layering matter on it, by hiding what is in front of our eyes, the artists connect with the viewers through their fictions, inviting new interpretations. Some of the works are new and experimental,  presented here for the first time, and as the story goes, they form artistic visions and offer a dialogue between altered realities.

Eirini Linardaki, New York, February 2024