(2017 - )
The projects in this Sleep of Reason explore, via formal and aesthetic means (burning, piercing, suturing), the traumatic political situation of late 2017 and the triumph of Trumpism. The works are realized on clear sheets of acetate; they are transparent, while nonetheless doubled by shadows cast on the walls. In this sense, they possess the logic of a haunting: they are both absent and present. Indeed, the title of the exhibition is drawn from Francisco de Goya y Lucientes’s most famous print, entitled The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, which hails from his “Caprichos (Caprices)” series (1797-98). Goya advocated for the values of the enlightenment; his points about the merits of rationality over nightmarish chaos continue to be relevant for our present.