"All hallucinations are real. Some hallucinations are more real than others."
Last year, some evening in October, I had picked a fortune cookie message from a large glass bowl in a hallway; it read:
"I have a dream. Time to go to bed. "
In the beginning of January, I took with me the pre-cutted text from above and two large prints representing some close at hand tropical paradise islands. The images assumed the familiar vision of secluded rich territories, being typically both promising and enticing as such.
I got off the elevator at the 4th floor, in the hallway of a block of flats in Bucharest. I have mounted the two large prints on the walls dividing the apartments and then set the text in. After the installation was completed, I have photographed the built-in environment.
While I was doing some research for the presentation of this project, I saw some of Martin Weber's images from the series named 'A Map of Latin American Dreams', shot in the 'land of contradictions' as he calls it. He was asking middle class and poor, colonists and indigenous peoples, urban and rural Latin Americans about their aspirations and desires.
One of the images was centered on this middle-aged man standing straight in his best suit and with his hair carefully combed, holding in his hands a small chalkboard with the following text: "Que La Necesidia No Perturbe Nuestros Suenos." That Our Needs Don't Disturb our Dreams.
Weber believed "it was possible to empower the underpowered - to present individuals who speak and think in their own words, therefore resisting that vision of fatalism so often imposed upon them."
This was also one of the aims of this project, conceived as an alteration of the common,familiar environments; braking the predictability and thus generic safety of the home and its surrounding territories.
I have included also excerpts from two other texts discussing the desire for walls and the wish for sleep in the modern society, which I found relevant and that develop further the topic.