"Sonata of dreams" MAREUNROL'S

MAREUNROL’S Sonata of dreams

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Can love in its quintessence be comparable to a dream? “Every interpretation is a hypothesis, an attempt to read an unknown text,” said C. G. Jung. Love is still a mystery. It has many faces and always contains madness, which can be both uplifting and destructive. All possibilities are open. It's no coincidence that they say love is blind and compare the state of body and mind, overwhelmed by romantic feelings, to the intoxication, caused by narcotic substances. Lady Macbeth fell into a love nightmare that dragged her into the whirlpool of her own archetypal depths.

Sometimes, the boundary between dream and reality is very fragile. A moment of half-awakeness between the worlds. Perhaps, that is why every once in a while lingering in the dreams is so tempting and it is such a pity that they get interrupted. Their depths are almost infinite. Perhaps, it is a world, from which we are temporarily torn away. Spending one third of our lives sleeping and dreaming for two hours, on the average, every night, we seem to keep an umbilical cord to it. As if entering a space of renewal. Dreams allow us to experience, to live through the things reality does not allow us to, to gain a different perspective, to learn something that is otherwise unknowable. That is why dreams are worth listening to. Like a spark, an impulse or a thread, they are the way, in which the processes of the personal and collective unconscious (expressed in the language of symbols and signs) break into the conscious mind at the moments, when it is necessary; in a way that is often indescribable… so that we can go further, following our path; so that we can understand something, find a solution, overcome an obstacle. So that we, with open eyes, can see/notice the reality that may also be just an embodied dream. Who knows.

Una Meistere, Arterritory.com

Curated by Una Meistere.

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About the gallery

Chekhov Theatre Gallery was founded in 2023 by the Mikhail Chekhov Theatre on the initiative of the theatre director Laura Groza, who is now acting as the gallery’s artistic director. Hosted in the historic theatre building in the heart of Old Riga, the gallery space was designed by the duo MAREUNROL’S (Mare Mastiņa-Pēterkopa and Rolands Pēterkops) who were the first artists to exhibit in the gallery. Since then, the gallery has hosted personal exhibitions internationally acclaimed contemporary artists Krišs Salmanis, Olaf Brzeski, Voldemārs Johansons and Arturs Virtmanis, all curated by philosopher and curator Igors Gubenko in dialogue with the thematic focus and repertoire of the Mikhail Chekhov Theatre seasons. The current exhibition “Sonata of Dreams”, curated by Una Meistere, marks the return of MAREUNROL’S to the gallery.

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