Dreams – of dreams of dreams is a book accompanying an exhibition and public programme of the same name. The project explores both our night and day dreams and our urge to harness the transformative power of imagination when we might seek to resolve, change or escape from personal and, with a collective mindset, wider social circumstances.

The act of dreaming is positioned delicately between the real and the unreal. It is nourished by hope and desire, but also by fear and disillusionment. Daily realities guide and narrate our dreams, but could this also work vice versa? Dreams are potent and give shape to the as yet unformed, what would arise if we started those of individuals and communities to shape a collective dream?  When we dream together, we invent new paradigms, rules, and worlds, which could have a tangible impact on the present and initiate processes of transformation on a societal level. Would a common dream be able to reshape reality and change it?

Dreams – of dreams of dreams is an invitation to dream, act and radically imagine new common worlds.

The book contains contributions from Letizia Acosta, Anna Bierler, Cecilia Casabona, Alejandro Cerón, Shaon M., Tiiu Meiner, Juliette Mirabito, Jesse Muller, Bernice Nauta, OOOReading Club, Natasha Rijkhoff, Vida Rucli, Mariángeles Soto-Díaz and Romy Day Winkel.

Onomatopee, 128pp. 11cm X 17cm, paperback, 2024