Frozen Dreams, luminous voices in the night at Spitsbergen Artists Center Gallery, February 5th, 2024

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Frozen Dreams, luminous voices in the night


 

Frozen Dreams, Luminous Voices in the Night is the first chapter of a work-in-progress, ambience-specific, audio-visual installation.
It is a project conceived and carried out during an artistic residency I did, together with photographer and videomaker Eugenio Pini, in the winter of 2023-2024 at the Spitsbergen Artists Center, in Longyearbyen, Svalbard Islands, Norway.

In a dark and silent space, voices, diffused by portable loudspeakers anchored to colourful flashing balloons, narrate their dreams: inner memories reactivated when heard. The project is inspired by Les Paroles Gelées (The Frozen Words), a section of the fourth book (1552) of François Rabelais’s Gargantua et Pantagruel, which narrates that at the edge of the frozen sea, in winter, there was a great and bloody battle. The shouts, the cries, the slashing, the clashing, the neighing and all the other frightful noises became frozen in the air. When the rigours of winter have passed, the serenity and temper of the good old days come to the fore, and so they melt and are heard.

A second chapter was added as a result of a subsequent residency in the summer of 2024, which led to an installation,
Thawing Dreams, Voices are water, presented on July 14th, 2024 in the same gallery at the Spitsbergen Artists Center.

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Watch the first chapter video and the trailer of second chapter

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Frozen Dreams, ambiance specific audio and visual installation, was presented in different contexts and situations:

Les Nouvelles Cordonnées, Fontaine-l'Abbé, France, October 31, 2024
Café Tissardmine's oasis, Sahara, Morocco, January 20 and 27, 2025 
Return at Chateau de Cerisy, Foyer de création et d'échanges 2025, Chateau de Cerisy La Salle. August 9th, 2025

Future presentations are planned in ice caves, former air raid shelters, dismessed mines and abandoned tunnels.

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