Dust of Dreams

“The project Dust of Dreams explores the languages of visual arts, music, dance and video with the multimedia and performance installation which is the development of the itinerant and participatory project Dreams’ Time Capsule.

The data analysis of the recordings, the artist extrapolates the most recurring words and images: the archive become a gateway to a boarder understanding of common fears and fantasies, shared worldwide.

In the multi-channel installation, images are synchronized following a chromatic balance and a rhythm dictated by the music. […]The artistic perspective, able to ideate a synergic bond between visual, performing arts and music, brings that reflection closer to the Carl Jung’s one around the Collective Unconscious.
According to the great Swiss psychoanalyst, philosopher and anthropologist, the archetypes and myths that belongs to the whole of humanity finally emerge “in the dreams with collective content, with a quantity of symbolic material”. In the same way, the relentless construction of the dream archive by Frapiccini “expresses the relationship between the individual and the society, the private and the collective, highlighting the progressive states of anxiety and fragmentation in the contemporary global community”. It is interesting to note how Jung spoke of the dream as a ‘theatrical machine‘: “The dream is the theater where the dreamer is, at the same time, both the stage, the actor, the prompter, the stage manager, the manager, the author, the public and the critic”.”

[text by Anna Daneri, excerpt]

“When entering the installation Dust of Dreams we dive into a continuum of images and words that seem to belong to us.

Natural elements, impressions, landscapes, trains, cities, and subjective views. The four video projections generate a synchronic dialogue between the screens. They explore a wide range of colors and climes, dive into the expressive temporalities so typical of dreams, which are translated into the cinematographic language of time-lapse and stop motion.

A dream space swells in front of us, where natural and anthropic environments coexist in a simultaneous, non-linear progression.

The music beneath the images directs and supports the narrative tension and articulates the rhythm of the images, and voices emerge from the sound environment to mark the non-linear temporality of the dream atmosphere. Suddenly, the images projected on the four screens slowly re-synchronize with one another until the universal archetypes finally appear in all their clarity: the fall, the motherhood, the aggressor, a door.

The indistinguishable voices become a stream of intertwined stories, wherein recurring symbols appear in a multitude of languages. Occasionally the voices and videos line up again, evoking a shared symbolism emphasized by the stop motion: for a moment we glimpse the collective imagination, the synchronic force capable of transforming private narratives into a shared feeling.

The voices generate a sensitive relationship that leads us beyond the visible and into the intimacy of the ephemeral experience of those who have donated their dreams. While intimate, these dreams, in some way, belong to us too.[…]”

[text by Giulia Palomba, excerpt]