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"Why do i dream about you"

Instalation 3x3x2.7m oil on regypsium, peepholes, performance, Art Academy of Latvia, 2012/ ZUGZWANG, Vilnius, 2012

This work developed from the experience of repeatedly returning to the same dream environment over a period of almost eight years. The dreams are connected to a person who no longer exists in my life, yet within the dreams this absence does not exist. The situation continues there without interruption or explanation, with a sense of normality and closeness that reality can no longer sustain. Because of this, the transition between sleeping and waking becomes unusually sharp. The work is not an attempt to reconstruct specific dreams, but to approach the particular psychological condition created by their repetition.

The installation consists of a 3x3 meter cube containing a live performance - choreographed movement. The audience cannot physically enter the structure. The only way to access the interior is through peepholes drilled directly into paintings surrounding the cube.

I became interested in the physical act of looking through a restricted opening. The peephole isolates vision from the surrounding environment and produces a concentrated, almost disembodied form of attention. Instead of viewing the performance collectively and from a distance, each spectator encounters it alone, fragmentarily and from a fixed position. The interior can never be seen in its entirety.

Inside the cube the performers move through a darkened space interrupted by isolated areas of light. Actions appear and disappear before they can fully stabilize into narrative. The work operates through partial visibility and repetition.

Looking through paintings transforms them into thresholds that must be crossed visually. I was interested in creating a situation where viewing itself changes, where intimacy remains visible, but inaccessible.

The Cube of Dreams ultimately functions as a self-contained space, existing separately from ordinary chronological time and from the logic of waking life.