GIUDECCA SHOWROOM
Groupshow
all dreams, all stone
NEVVEN is proud to present "all dreams, all stone," a group show featuring new works by Warsaw based Belarusian artist Lera Dubitskaya, Italian artist Letizia Lucchetti, Swedish artist Emelie Sandström, and two works from the archive of legendary Japanese photographer Toshio Shibata. With Dubitskaya, Lucchetti and Shibata at their first ever exhibition in Sweden, and inspired by a poem by American poet Eileen Myles ("Dream," 2013), the show aims to present four extremely distant practices, mediums, artists and formats. Grounded on stark juxtapositions, both physical and metaphysical, "all dreams, all stone" invites the viewer to delve into the eerie and captivating, funny and serious, colourful and austere works these four artists present us with.
Dream
Close to the
door in
my dream the
small signs
I saw a brown
sign with wisdom
on it
I saw a brown
one leaning
with wisdom
on it
fringe of a mirror
my mother
leaning over a pond
cupping water
leaning against
the moulding
cardboard or
wood which materials do you
does your wisdom prefer
which a-
partment in a summer
with someone
I felt brave to
have touched
her love the screen
door and the dogs
and the cats always
getting out. That
was the fear
two signs
fading but recalling
they had faded like words
fade in stone because
of the rain and the days
and waking and the dream
is leaving with every
step leaning over the meat
because I do not want
you to have died in vain
kissing the turkey and
the neck ofâ my dog
all animals am I.
all dreams, all stone
all message am I.
Eileen Myles(1)
(1) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/56627/dream-56d2394c9f8e2 accessed on 31 May 2023.