Atlas of Dreams

In a world increasingly anchored to the tangible, Atlas of Dreams proposes a journey into the intangible, the ethereal, the deeply human. This group exhibition brings together four artists whose practices explore the dream as a fertile ground for creation—where desires, hopes, and intimate projections are transformed into artistic matter.

What maps do we draw when we close our eyes? What intimate cartographies emerge when desire takes the shape of an image, a gesture, a material?

From different contexts and visual languages, Gema Polanco, Agustín Esteso, Daniel Dobarco, and Yonca Karakaş construct an imaginary atlas—a map without fixed coordinates that charts the emotional, the symbolic, and the imagined. This atlas is not made of precise routes or geographical logics. It is, rather, a cluster of floating islands—an emotional archipelago where creation moves to the rhythm of what has no shape yet, but still pulses.

More than representations of dreams, their works construct a symbolic map of inner restlessness, inner visions, and possible projections. Their coordinates are marked by vital pulses: the urgency to turn the intimate into form, the invisible into matter, the latent into image.

Each work is an entry point into a subjective universe that asks not only what we dream, but why we dream, and how those impulses shape our personal and collective narratives. The dreamlike here is not an escape, but a compass—a guide made of intuition, drive, and promises yet to be named.

Dreaming, understood not as evasion but as impulse, is the thread that weaves through this exhibition—a celebration of the transformative power of imagination. Atlas of Dreams honors that deeply human capacity to create from what we long for; to conceive art as a rehearsal for the possible, as a testimony of an imagination unwilling to settle for the present. It is also an invitation to get lost—to inhabit uncertainty as an act of faith in our ability to imagine.

And perhaps it is also a way of remembering that before anything can exist, someone has to have dreamed it. That every image is born from a vision, and every artistic gesture is, at heart, a map toward what could be.

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
— Pablo Picasso