Original artwork description:

In this dream I was entering a dark room with many switches on all walls but none of them would turn on the lights.

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The artwork can be shipped “ready to hang” in a wooden crate or rolled in a tube, in which case shipping costs will vary.

Part of the collection “The Poetics of Space”

I have always been fascinated by dream spaces—rooms, labyrinths, passages—and my research led me to Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space. In that book I discovered many of the images, symbols, and thoughts I had been using in my work and imagination since childhood. Shells, nests, connected rooms, caves, and shelters are some of the spaces that continue to inspire me.

Andromachi Giannopoulou was born in Australia and grew up in Athens, Greece. She studied Painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts, and later received a scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation to continue her studies in Art and Design at Chelsea College of Arts in London. She currently lives in Athens, where she works as an art teacher. She has participated in numerous exhibitions and Biennales in Greece and internationally, and has been awarded the Education Leaders Award for excellence in the field.

Her artistic practice revolves around the fluid boundaries between reality, memory, and dream. She is particularly drawn to the spaces between sleep and wakefulness, the recurrence of certain dreams, and the ways dream spaces behave. These subconscious images often circle around questions of female sexuality and its repression—though she rarely begins with a fixed theme. Instead, she allows images and sensations to guide the process, embracing the inevitable distortions of perception.

Materials used:

Oil varnish

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