Relentlessness of Dreaming

The Relentlessness of Dreaming is an interactive installation by Christopher Postill which explores collectivity, dreams and our control of our own subconscious. The piece is a surreal experience in which the viewer interacts with life-sized winged figures which are projected onto the walls of the gallery space. The experience plays out as a short narrative which starts as single figure standing on it’s own.

When a viewer enters the installation space and confronts this figure, their shadow will block the figure’s silhouette, causing the projection to begin to disintegrate. If the viewer continues to stand in this position of eclipsing the figure with their shadow, the figure will completely disintegrate. Once the figure is no longer visible, two more identical figures are spawned in different random positions. This process then continues, the viewer can eclipse either of these two new figures, and once completely erased, the figure will spawn two more.

The piece was installed twice during 2007, in the Ryerson Gallery / 401 Richmond.

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