“Rest, you sleep drunk drowsy dream oracle, sink into the dream mystery of hibernation. Stagger sleepily through the dream world. Lazy, indolent, foggy, lingering in a dreamlike existence. A dreamy dream-doctrine for the sleepless dream-technology of the dream-sick. Snooze in the feather bed. Sleep in peace, dream up a dreamlike dream image in this hypnagogic dream play.”
For this occasion Zettergren has allowed for the nightboons, digital sculptures as escapees from the Virtual Reality, to enter CPR2 as large scale projections on the gallery walls and the glass front. They will be visible to awake Brooklyners who pass by at any hour of the night.
The Nightboons are developed from a series of drawings that Rut Karin Zettergren made during a few weeks while recovering from a rare illness that made her sleep long hours.
The dream journal that she kept at the time and the lush dreams promoted by her deep sleep was the base for Dreaming the technological, a wider scope of work that Nightboon is part of. It is the artist's exploration of how technology affects sleep and dreams.