Dream Translations
The dream is revealed through the art while the art is further illuminated by the dream.
New Knowing:
A novel way of exploring dreams
What do you dream about? Far away landscapes? Flying? An emerald-colored ocean? Or do you encounter recognizable situations but they all seem to have a twist? Your car is gold, your cat can talk and your local subway is now a boat.
Our dreams provide us with precious knowledge about our lives. They also create poetic spaces due to their out-of-the-ordinary presentation and their imaginative renderings of our daily lives.
Dream Translations Museums is a collaborative process that looks to translate day or nightly dreams into a selection of artworks from the world’s great museums.
Giving the dream a bodily form via art anchors it more firmly into our consciousness. Artworks are akin to dreams in the way they too probe our inner worlds. Dreams and art speak the same language, a visual one of imaginings and meanings. In pairing them, we find their meanings further revealed.
“I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes.”
Anne Willieme/Airport n.1/Limited Ed. Print
Dream Translations Artworks is a process during which I translate my own as well as other’s nightly dreams into an art piece, a painting, a print, an installation or a choreography. The artwork anchors the dream in consciousness, helping one to access its meaning, while also revealing its poetic stance.
Anne Willieme/Braille Dreams n.2
Limited Edition Print
Translation of a dream into Braille
on a backdrop of star formations.