Dreaming Mirrors Dreaming Screens
January 29–April 2, 2016
Berlin
Theodora Allen
Slater Bradley
Lucy Dodd
Lizzie Fitch / Ryan Trecartin
Andy Hope 1930
Oliver Laric
Pew Die Pie
Jon Rafman
Pamela Rosenkranz
Sara VanDerBeek
Stan VanDerBeek
Lesley Vance
Andro Wekua
curated by Johannes Fricke Waldthausen / GOODROOM
Bringing together the practice of thirteen international artists, the exhibition Dreaming Mirrors Dreaming Screens appeals to the intuitive mind and creativity beyond referential thinking. Departing from the artists´ production, it navigates through narratives in the realm of surrealist animation, abstraction and subjects of ‘New Materialism’ embracing the logic of the internet.
The concept of the show develops around notions of the screen as an interface for both the conscious and the subconscious mind, as well as a surface for projections of communication and technological abstraction. The exhibition aims to synchronize the intuitive mind with screens as doorways to lucid states of both the rational and the dream-like. As Jean Baudrillard claims, “we used to live in the imaginary world of the mirror and the stage. Today, we live in the imaginary world of the screen, the interface and networks. We too have become screens.” This entails states of increasing polarities.
