Gallery 5

Debjani Bhardwaj

12.09.2022 ­– 04.11.2022

“Dreams within Dreams” is a new exhibition from Debjani Bhardwaj that showcases artworks depicting sleep stories and lucid dreams.

Have you ever started dreaming and suddenly realized that you were in a dream?

What if a dream is encased within the envelope of another?

Are dreams a hint, a gist, a painting or poetry.

“Dreams within Dreams” is a new exhibition from Debjani Bhardwaj that showcases artworks depicting sleep stories and lucid dreams. Using fragile, hand-cut paper and object-human hybrid sculptures, she maps the fertile crosscurrents of speculative fiction, utopias, dystopias, and fantasy. The images extracted from her subconscious mind appear incomprehensible, bizarre and implausible. Her figurative vignettes are drawn from muffled memories, unremembered but not forgotten, hidden but that which have now come to light. Like dreams, they flout the laws of plausibility plot a twisted, circuitous chronology and are open to interpretation.