From January 27 to April 28, 2024, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art is proud to present its first exhibition of the year, “Dream Time,” a group show where fifteen artists and art collectives investigate the complex meanings of dreams—both as reveries and aspirations—in works that span media including painting, sculpture, photography, video, installation, and performance.

Dreams are extremely private, depicting an individual’s inner world, arousing their secret desires and fears, connecting them to the past and future, and reinforcing their identity with the self and the collective. Modern technology seems to have intruded that private space. People become constantly interrupted by the infinite fragmented information accessible at their fingertips, and deprived of the time to think about more essential topics—gender and cultural identity, environmental sustainability, subjective perception, intimate relationships, evolution of technology, personal and collective memories, to name a few.

（Text by UCCA Center for Contemporary Art)