Elisa Glugosh
A collection of works that explore the experiences of REM sleep and false memories. The exhibit examines the fuzziness of how memories develop over time, and how some memories are completely false. The main pieces of work are photo based, creating double exposures with two film cameras, a Kodak Duaflex and a Brownie Hawkeye. Using expired 120 film presented with a sculptural approach, found televisions and projectors as frames, as well as using sound, the pieces aim to stimulate and extend the viewer’s experience of REM sleep and confusion.
“I want to create a space that embodies the feeling of not being able to sleep, dreaming and not knowing which reality is real, or if it’s real at all. Your brain tends to dream about events or worries going on in your current reality. I want the viewer to feel like they have entered my brain and feel how I feel, but also relate to the pieces personally. Using their ears, eyes, and mind to meditate on complicated ideas of the unknown, and the symbols a dreaming mind produces. I researched dream theories and pseudoscience for a bit of insight and I was fascinated to find that there can be messages that your psyche is hiding in dreams in the form of small details and symbols. I used that to inspire my double exposure photographs. The tv’s and projectors represent the mind, while the photos represent the dreams themselves”
