In response to this time when privacy no longer seems to exist, Vincent Ceraudo became interested in dreams. Dreams that we ourselves hardly remember are the last private domain, although this is also mapped by brain technology, he states not without a sense of activism. He wanted to build an installation, as “a poetic journey that explores the politics of sleep and dreams as one of the last refuges against the interference of capitalism in the human mind.” With this self-dream-like but above all anti-capitalist total artwork, he wanted to lead viewers to scientific places that study thought processes and dreams – via virtual reality, film images, sound, text, objects. “Can we control our dreams? How does our digital existence change the way we communicate? What is telepathically possible?”

Ceraudo studied in the US and in Amsterdam at the Ateliers. With video, film and installation he tells about the relationship between human consciousness and technology, space, time, memory, and the construction of reality and fiction. In recent years he has exhibited at AVL Mundo in Rotterdam and FRAC in Marseille, among others, and has been nominated for prizes in Italy and France. The R&D committee found it an interesting and well-thought-out proposal from an artist with a convincing practice and whose clear own voice resonates.

Ceraudo spent a year in total on this plan, which took him to Paris, Kyoto and Nijmegen. Dream reports are unreliable, he soon learned in his research in which he decided to delve into especially lucid dreams. He spoke to neurologists and other specialists and read, met and filmed various lucid dreamers. He combined these images with archive material from the National Scientific Research Center in Paris as well as the Center ornithologique d'île de France there. The VR and video images for the installation show a lab where dreams are read and studied, which he poetically combines with images of birds, which can go days without sleep during migration. He based the narrative for his installation on Jonathan Crary's book 'The capitalism at the end of sleep', in addition to the stories of lucid dreams, which are sometimes abstractly calm and sometimes very hyper-realistic. He wanted to unite all this in an installation to be shown at Marian Van Zijll Langhout Gallery and Nitja Contemporary Art Center in Norway.