Unconscious Dreams (2025) is a new body of work that unfolds across painting, sculpture, and poetry, forming an immersive environment where perception shifts between wakefulness and dream-state. The exhibition traces the subtle terrain between memory and imagination, where the self expands, dissolves, and recomposes through gestures of intuition. A poem becomes a guide: a keeper of language whose voice opens a threshold into the unknown. Within this portal, images rise like apparitions, shifting forms that carry the weight of migration, longing, and the unfinished work of transformation.
Manuel Mathieu’s works do not describe; they appear. They reveal how memory, movement, and cultural inheritance imprint themselves on the psyche, and how creation becomes an act of spiritual attunement. In Unconscious Dreams, this process expands into a dialogue with poet Dai Weina, whose words open a new interpretive space where image and poetry intertwine.
Presented by HdM Gallery in collaboration with poet Dai Weina.