Night Pieces: A Foreign Body Within

‘Night Pieces’ is inspired by the 18th-century Dark Romanticism classic, the Sandman, by E.T.A. Hoffman,
from which the exhibition draws grotesque and unheimlich poetics. It extends several of the novel’s themes and situates them in a contemporary proposition, which includes the exploration of the boundary between machine intelligence and the human mind, the observation of the visual (dis)orders comparing blindness with the monstrosity and illusion with signs, and the analysis of both the individual unconsciousness and a collective desire.