Speaking in Dream 2021

TMRW Gallery

Johannesburg

 

As someone who suffers from ADD, anxiety and depression, I’m on a lot of medication. One of the side effects is vivid dreaming. This side effect reflects the way the medical-industrial complex manipulates people and their ‘illness’. However, I’m wondering if this vivid dreaming could be seen as unintended consequence, allowing me to find a place for myself, counter to the aim of the medicine. The medication wants me to fit into the world whereas perhaps the combination of medications I’m on is opening other worlds to me and making me imagine a world in which people don’t have to fit it.  

It’s as though I live in two worlds. These two experiences make me think about the connections between dreaming when you sleep and the dreams you hold for your life and the world, and of a collective dreaming for more liveable futures.