‘Oneiriography,’ curated by Chris Fite-Wassilak, brings together the work of Simon and Tom Bloor, Michelle Deignan, Ruth Ewan, and Ragnar Kjartansson in an attempt to mark the blurred, unknown distance between what is and what has come before.
Rather than the dominant, Freudian understanding of both dreams and history as an encoded ‘royal road to understanding’
that creates a causal chronology, the artists here question the shared narrative desire of history and its dreams,
exploring its displaced remnants and supposed dead-ends. Shards of reconstructed stories and possible historical
occurrences partially emerge, tracing the ripples of absent and elusive events. ‘Oneiriography’ is a historiography
of dreams, an ambiguous space in which the past is reconfigured in an attempt to open up new meaning for the present.
