Dreamscape
2023[sound installation with interactive sensors] Concept and artistic direction Eva FrapicciniMusics Sara Berts Mixing Nicolò Foglia Design setting Michele Tavano Graphic Design Grazia Dammacco Collaborators Lorenzo Cannavacciuolo, Valentina Ceci, Marco Esposito, Eathan Marchesini, Emmanuel Petraretti, Tommaso Rabuffetti, Manuel Riva, Eva Ruggieri, Gianluca Nariello, Vittoria Maione, Azzurra Bocci, Irene Farinelli, Alessandro Calvanese, Monica Menna, Giuliana Mastellone, Riccardo CalandroProduced by AlbumArteUnder the support of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo within Art~Waves funding and the Italian Ministry of Culture within the Italian Council funding----EXHIBITIONS:• Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy, 2026• Polo del '900, Turin, Italy, 2023• Museo MADRE, Naples, Italy, 2023• Fondazione Palazzo Ducale per la Cultura, Genoa, Italy, 2023• Biennale Son, Musée d'Art du Valais, Sion, Switzerland, 2023
Dreamscape stems from an international research project developed from 2011 to 2022 in which thousands of people from different parts of the world entered her Dreams’ Time Capsule and were asked to recall and record on a microphone details and memories of dreams that they had experienced.
The purpose of archiving was to carry out a utopian work, to reach people in different parts of the world to record their nightly dreams, to understand if there were any common images, testing the Jungian collective unconscious. Over the years, during historic votes, the pandemic, and national referendums, this call has been answered by more than 2,300 people who have entered the itinerant structure in Bogotà, Cairo, Stockholm, Genoa, Berlin, Sharjah, Turin, Dubai, Riga, Bergamo.
Dreamscape places the practice of listening at the center of the visitors’ experience, creating an immersive sound installation that requires their presence to be activated. In the dimly-lit exhibition space, with the sound dramaturgy of Sara Berts, Dreamscape shifts the focus from remote viewing to an intimate yet collective participatory experience that reveals the universal dimension of the unconscious, as dreams transcend the cultures of those who generate them.