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In dem einstündigen Zusammenschnitt erzählen Cristina, Daniela, Diana, Elena F., Elena S., Hanan, Luciana, Manuela, Pina, Racheal, Rita, Roberta, Samira und Suad ihre Träume, mitunter von Zwischenfragen und Kommentaren der anderen unterbrochen.
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allows the women participating in the project to speak for themselves. In an hour-long recording, Cristina, Daniela, Diana, Elena F., Elena S., Hanan, Luciana, Manuela, Pina, Racheal, Rita, Roberta, Samira, and Suad relate their dreams, sometimes interrupted by questions and comments from the others. Portraits of the speakers made by Roberta Baseggio—the only one of the dreamers whose full name we learn—hang on the walls, standing in for people who cannot be present. Sketches of seating arrangements from the workshops presented in a display case are a metaphor for the sensitive structure of a group as well as for space and architecture as determining factors of social interaction. If the absence of the speakers finds an equivalent in the deliberately spare setup of the room, the physical presence of the wrought-iron furniture designed by Biscotti constitutes the antithesis to the immateriality of the audio installation and the disembodied portraits. It was about looking at how to go back and forth between the institutional and the individual, the group and the person. What is most important in this project is how a collective moment is formed, and how to keep that open.
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