Hong Kong Arts Centre Pao Galleries (4F)
27 Feb – 10 March 2026
Opening Reception: 27 Feb 6:30PM; performance 7:00PM
Dreams are among the oldest and most unconscious visual illusions experienced by humans. Dreams are not fantasies but echoes of creativity, insight, and the subconscious. When we fall into dreams, everything becomes either softer or sharper than in real life, and the time boundaries gradually blur into a realm unbounded by the tangible world. It allows the dreamer to transcend the limitations of space and time, encountering both the past and future. Dreamscapes are boundless, free from the rules and logic of reality, allowing the dreamer to creatively construct her own world. Dreams therefore have always been a source of intrigue and inspiration. Modern science and technology have enabled the use of computer-generated imagery and virtual reality to recreate dreams. By revisiting dreams, artists and creators can gain inspiration and enhance their creativity. It also offers dreamers and others the possibility to explore their inner worlds and gain insights.
In this context, the Studio for Narrative Space is excited to announce the new exhibition “Dreamscapes,” supported by Hong Kong Arts Development Council. Dreamscapes brings together contemporary artists who treat dreams not only as private experiences, but as shared narrative spaces where memory, history, technology, and imagination intertwine. Through installation, moving image, photography, interactive systems, and live performance, the exhibition explores how dreams function as sites of speculation, trauma, desire, and self projection. In an era increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, data systems, and computational vision, dreams take on new forms, becoming datasets, simulations, glitches, and archives that blur the boundary between the human subconscious and machine imagination. By revisiting dreams through emerging technologies, especially AI driven processes, the exhibition invites audiences to reflect on how inner worlds are externalized, interpreted, and transformed, and how contemporary tools reshape the ways we remember, predict, and narrate ourselves.
夢境是人類最古老、最無意識的視覺幻覺之一。夢境並非幻想，而是創造力、洞察力和潛意識的迴響。當我們進入夢境時，一切都變得比現實生活更柔和或更清晰，時間的界線逐漸模糊，最終進入一個不受物質世界束縛的領域。它使做夢者能夠超越時空的限制，邂逅過去和未來。夢境無邊無際，不受現實規則和邏輯的束縛，讓做夢者能創造性地建構自己的世界。因此，夢境始終是令人著迷和充滿靈感的來源。隨著科技的進步，現代科學與藝術的融合使得電腦生成影像和虛擬實境技術能夠更生動地重現夢境。透過重溫夢境，藝術家和創作者可以從中汲取靈感，提升創造力。它也為做夢者和其他人提供了探索內心世界、獲得深刻洞察的機會。 有鑑於此，Studio for Narrative Space舉辦了由香港藝術發展局支持的展覽「築夢」（Dreamscapes）。 展覽匯聚多位當代藝術家，他們不單將夢境視為私密體驗，更視之為記憶、歷史、科技與想像相互交織的共享敘事空間。透過裝置、流動影像、攝影、互動系統及現場展演，展覽探討夢境如何作為思辨、創傷、慾望與自我投射的場域。在這個日益受人工智能、數據系統與運算視覺重塑的時代，夢境呈現出嶄新形態，化作數據集、模擬、故障與檔案，模糊了人類潛意識與機械想像之間的界限。展覽透過新興科技，特別是 AI 驅動的運算過程，重新審視夢境，邀請觀眾反思內在世界如何被外化、解讀與轉化，以及當代工具如何重塑我們記憶、預測與敘述自我的方式。
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