SLUMBER 2024

Exhibition at BOTH Gallery. Duo with Lito Apostolakou.

SLUMBER: at the threshold of sleep

What does the sleep of reason bring? Navigating through sleeping states of being, Ali Darke and Lito Apostolakou present an exhibition of drawing, sculpture and moving image that centre on experiences of embodiment, the architecture of remembered space and the elusive shifts in consciousness at the borders of sleep, insomnia and dreams.

‘We are cast upon the shores of our bedlinen from out of the infinite ocean of the night, left like debris as the dream recedes from us’. Peter Schwenger

 

SKIN AND STONE,

linen pillow case, river rocks

 
 

I LOSE MY EDGES AT THE FALL OF SLEEP

linen pillow case, river rock, net

 
 

WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS

stick, linen, wadding, glass dome

 
 

LET ME REST, I

linen pillow case, absent river rock

 
 

NO PLACE TO REST

linen pillow case, river rocks

 
 

BUT, I GREW WINGS

river rock, bed linen, sticks

 
 

I WAS A BIRD, THEN

puppet, found stick, linen, brick (image 1) branch string (image 2)