When, according to Aristotle, the human being abandons himself to that necessary moment of physical and psychic withdrawal that is sleep, giving in to ‘the invasion of the sensible principle, reduced to no longer being able to act’, a passage opens up into the antechamber of dreams, a private journey from sensation to emotion, a vast realm on the borderline between the living and the disappearing: the Dream. As mysterious as it is fascinating, as a language of the body and the mind, the dream has inspired artists and creators from the dawn of art to the present day. A reverie sent to mankind by the gods of Antiquity, an aspiration or mirage, a fantasy... Literally ‘vision during sleep’, the dream is the space of all possibilities, of all colours and all promises.

This multitude of images produced by the unconscious, veritable negatives of our emotions, make up an immaterial and vaporous beyond; an inexhaustible substance of choice for creativity and the imagination, and a common source for the 27 artists featured in the exhibition. Eyes (half) closed to see more clearly, on the edge between the real and the imaginary; the ‘Rêve!’ exhibition is an injunction to let go, an invitation to share dreamlike visions or dreams of freedom, or to celebrate (together) the art of doing nothing... a parenthesis in surreality. Here is the key to dreams, which may reveal the imperceptible... An intimate landscape or a hidden meaning, a modern tale, a secret garden, a room of one's own?