“times new romance” is a series of works exploring collective dreams and their aesthetics. The installation examines the polyphony of the collective dreams that we, as art students and emerging cultural workers, share.
As a resident of Berlin, I find myself entangled in an ambiguous discourse that critically reflects on gentrification, while simultaneously being part of it.

Fashion and the question of exposed individuality emerge as the flip side of dynamics that, at the same time, render collectivity. The atmosphere that permeates the pavements and neighborhoods around me resembles a collective dream. “times new romance” is based on a series of spoken fragments collected during breezy summer nights in Berlin’s vogue districts and is curious about the texture of this collective dream—the dream of waking up.

Additionally, the installation reveals my personal and actual night dreams, written down whenever I dreamt of the art academy as a physical or social space during the last year. Dream-talking I discover myself being involved in collective desires. The question guiding this exploration is: When does the private become political, and when do public phenomena interfere with the very intimate elements of privacy?