Curated by Marco De Giuli
For Aboriginal Australians, Dreamtime is the time of creation, a time when Ancestors created the world with a song.
The representation of dreams in art has seen contributions from many authors, from Giotto to Raffaello, from Goya to Blake, from Picasso to Chagall, but the work that perhaps most fully represents the blurred border between the dream world and the real one is the painting by Salvador Dali: Dream caused by the flight of a bee around a pomegranate a second before awakening.
Cinema also evokes dreams, with images that alternate through dynamics that often recall the dream phase: just think of Dreams by Akira Kurosawa.
According to neurobiologist Jean-Pol Tassin, dreams are similar to a comics: a few cartoons, a few snapshots capable of evoking a story that our brain reconstructs in its entirety.
Just think of Dream of the Rarebit Fiend (1904) and Little Nemo in Slumberland (1905) by Winsor McCay.
The authors of INTERIORS, a self-produced magazine of comics and illustrations, were particularly fascinated by the theme Dreams and agreed to reinterpret it in an exhibition, returning to put impulses, desires, nightmares at the center of their visions, returning to daydream, freeing imagination.
A common wish in these difficult times: sweet dreams!
