When it comes to dreams, Sigmund Freud is perhaps the name that immediately enters the conversation. Dreams, after all, have long been understood as a passage into the unconscious, the place where the fragments of the mind come together in ways that are not always easy to understand. Freud famously called dreams the 'royal road to the unconscious.' But Avinash Veeraraghavan’s Fever Dreams takes a slightly different path, one that feels less like an attempt to decode a dream and more like an invitation to enter one.
\n\nWalking through the exhibition, there is a sense that the gallery itself has paved the way for the artist’s work to shine through. As soon as one enters, there are a number of artworks that look like pieces or processes, equally fascinating in themselves, but also textures that feel like parts of something bigger, something more dream-like. There is a house on fire in the woods, a bed under the sea with fishes floating by, and a man in the middle of nowhere, in the search of nowhere.
\n\nThe fever part of the dreams comes true in three works that are lithograms. There is something about staring at the orange in these works…
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