Dream Therapy
dal 1/1/2008 al 1/2/2008
Segnalato da
1/1/2008
Dream Therapy
Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York
Group Show
Curated by Leonardo Proietti
Dreams are unconscious messages, visions, often incomprehensible to
the conscious mind. By way of dreams, even daydreams, we express our
desires, project our will. But at the same time, a dream can be a
flight from reality, an escape – into a parallel world – from the
ugliness that surrounds us and from the paralysis that comes from the
fossilization of our choices in life. Dreams thus belong to a
contradictory dimension, an underlying emotional layer. They provoke
a stream of consciousness which allows us to renew and cleanse our
mind; yet at the same time, construct infinite labyrinths, aware of
the danger that we may well not find the way out.
Can we begin with the hypothesis that art derives its force not only
from the real world which it observes more or less critically, but
that it also intervenes, actively, in the world of emotions, of
visions, of dreams?
Dream Therapy inspired the exhibition in its meaning as a tool of
psychoanalysis. Given that the dream-dimension has a fundamental role
in the complex world of introspection, we have chosen artworks which
seem to convey this "inner vision." The viewer will have the chance
to move from one work to the next, discovering connections (and
inconsistencies) with his or her own emotions. By the end, the
"patient" will have enjoyed, each in his or her own way, a session of
Dream Therapy.
Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts
508 West 26th St - New York
Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11am – 6pm
Free admission