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Alena Seletskaya (2020). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + ZIL Culture Centre, Moscow.
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Azil (Liza Chukhlantseva) (2020). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + ZIL Culture Centre, Moscow.
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Mary Anaskina, Natasha Angashanova, Vadim Mel, Dreamhouse (2020). Installation view. Image courtesy the artists + ZIL Culture Centre, Moscow.
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Spring of Dream or Nightmare (2020). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artists + ZIL Culture Centre, Moscow.
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Maria Andreeva (2020). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + ZIL Culture Centre, Moscow.
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Maria Andreeva (2020). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + ZIL Culture Centre, Moscow.
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Nastya Mleko (2020). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + ZIL Culture Centre, Moscow.
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Nikola Fedorov (2020). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + ZIL Culture Centre, Moscow.
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Bestiary 5+ (2020). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + ZIL Culture Centre, Moscow.
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Mary Anaskina (2020). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + ZIL Culture Centre, Moscow.
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Natasha Angashanova (2020). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + ZIL Culture Centre, Moscow.
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Natasha Angashanova (2020). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + ZIL Culture Centre, Moscow.
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Natasha Angashanova (2020). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + ZIL Culture Centre, Moscow.
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Rima Zamzam and Maria Ivanova (2020). Installation view. Image courtesy the artists + ZIL Culture Centre, Moscow.
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Robbie Hansen (2020). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + ZIL Culture Centre, Moscow.

Exploring dreams & the creatures of our unconscious in an anxious age with the Spring of Dream or Nightmare group show

, 11 May 2020

Spring of Dream or Nightmare, a group exhibition curated by Natasha Angashanova and Mary Anaskina, was on at Moscow’s ZIL Culture Centre, running February 1 to 9.

Spring of Dream or Nightmare (2020). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artists + ZIL Culture Centre, Moscow.

Sprawling across the venue’s halls with mixed-media installation, paintings and video, the exhibition considered dreams as well as the effect of an anxious present day on the unconscious of our sleeping selves. The large group show featured over 20 artists including Bora Akinciturk, Amalia Ulman, Rima Zamzam and Maria Ivanova, Felix Idle among others. As Natasha Angashanova’s press text observes, “Information glut, development of technology and an increase in the level of anxiety forced the magical characters, monsters and other creatures of human consciousness to emigrate to the web.”**

Spring of Dream or Nightmare, curated by Natasha Angashanova and Mary Anaskina, was on at ZIL Culture Centre, Moscow, running February 1 to 9, 2020.