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חלומות צלולים

Lucid Dreams


  • Date iconDecember 17 2024 - June 7 2025
  • Curator: Adina Kamien
          Associate curator: Sarah Benshushan
  • Designer: Shirly Yahalomi
  • Nathan Cummings Building for Modern and Contemporary Art

We sleep. Images appear in our mind’s eye. Scenes and sensations are seen, heard, felt: dreams, a creation of sleep. The unconscious speaks in symbols – as does art. Dreams and art open up transcendent spaces of healing.

Lucid Dreams engages with this universal theme, crossing boundaries of time and geography to investigate dreams in art, material culture, and new media from a multicultural perspective. It presents ancient headrests, illuminated Jewish, Islamic, and Christian manuscripts, Chinese dream stones and Japanese Zen prints together with works in a range of mediums by artists from the last three centuries, from Goya’s powerful Sleep of Reason through Surrealist visions to contemporary international and Israeli creations. All of these express humanity’s shared, never-ending desire to touch the dream and interpret it.

Celebrating the centenary of André Breton’s 1924 Manifesto of Surrealism and inspired by his Dream Object, the exhibition leads you through a long corridor to multiple “compartments” of the unconscious. These rooms echo the complexity of the human mind and the multifaceted nature of thoughts, emotions, and memories. We invite you to shift consciousness and immerse yourself in the transformative power of art.

 

Sharon Balaban, Israeli, born 1971
Mascara, 2024
Stills from 4K video installation, 4:54 mins.
Courtesy of the artist
© The artist
Photo © Sharon Balaban
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), British, 1832–1898
Xie Sleeping, 1874
Albumen print, 10.2 x 14.3 cm
The Vera and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Dada and Surrealist Art in the Israel Museum
B98.0108
Dina Goldstein, Israeli, born 1979
The Dreaming Room, 2024 (detail)
Papercut installation: mixed media including
furniture and sound
Courtesy of the artist
© The artist
Photo: © Dina Goldstein
Tal Shochat, Israeli, born 1974
Untitled, 2005
Chromogenic print, 124.5 x 124.5 cm
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem: Purchase,
Marion and Guy Naggar Fund, London
© The artist
B06.0428

 

The exhibition was made possible by
The Ayala Zacks Abramov Fund
The donors to the Israel Museum Exhibition Fund:

Claudia Davidoff, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
in memory of Ruth and Leon Davidoff

Hanno D. Mott, New York

The Nash Family Foundation, New York

An anonymous donor

 

Additional support provided by:

The Aviv Foundation

FSJU - Fonds Social Juif Unifié – France & Israel