Journey to the other side of dream
«Journey to the other side of dream» is an interdisciplinary project that began with a series of graphics that became part of the art object «The Wardrobe», which was presented at the exhibition of nominees for the «Kandinsky Prize-4», 2010. Later, the story from «The Wardrobe» took on a linear form and became a book published in english by «ArtLeda» under the name «Journey to the Otherworld of Dreams», 2018. And in 2021, a short animated film was created based on the same story. It was presented at the exhibition «Millennials in Contemporary Russian Art» at The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, 2021, and at «Sleepless Video Art Night» in Venice by the «CYLAND Video Archive», 2025.
The story tells about a girl who, traveling within her dreams, tries to identify herself and understand her place in the universe. This becomes a therapeutic experience for her.
The story tells about a girl who, traveling within her dreams, tries to identify herself and understand her place in the universe. This becomes a therapeutic experience for her.
The art object «The Wardrobe» is an antique 19th-century wardrobe, inside which is a story written on the inner walls, with 91 graphic illustrations (ink and watercolor on paper). The story unfolds in the three-dimensional space of the wardrobe. The journey begins at the bottom, where a small figure of a sleeping child lies wrapped in a blanket, and the cosmos with stars is on the ceiling. The stars are light bulbs mounted in ceiling hangers. A motion sensor is built into the wardrobe, which reacts to the viewer's approach - then the wardrobe doors slowly open, music from several music boxes sounds simultaneously.
Is in a private collection
Is in a private collection
The book «Journey to the Otherworld of Dreams» was published in 2018 by «ArtLeda» in English in a limited edition of 1000 copies with no possibility of reprinting, making it a bibliographic rarity.
Book on youtube
Book on youtube
The book can be ordered directly from the publisher. The book will be delivered to the buyer in a special pillowcase printed with the book cover image, along with a drawing by the author, created personally for the buyer.
«Journey to the other side of dream»
Animated short film, 4 minutes, 2021.
Story and animation by Lera Nibiru.
Music by «New composers».
Film on youtube
Animated short film, 4 minutes, 2021.
Story and animation by Lera Nibiru.
Music by «New composers».
Film on youtube
How to deifine the limit of a dream? How to discover myself inside my self? How to tell if the journey can ever end?
I ask these questions to myself every moment. Do I ask myself? Was the world that I see created by me? The project is dedicated to the problems of self-identiifcation and solipsism. It is a graphic series about one character — little girl Lerochka, who in a feverish nod has discovered herself beginning a journey through the endless if elds of consciousness. One eye of the little heroine is open to the fairytale reality, and the other – the “normal” one - is reminding her of the need to return. But where can she return? How to single out of thousands of realities the one where the journey began from? Having once started, the journey never ends.
The dream is always “on the other side”. The consciousness tries to overcome the obtrusive images from childhood, to choose the lasting delusion, to clarify its paranoia, to if nd the borders of the world, but the world cannot be structuralized, thus opening inconsistency of logic.
The journey unfolds inside a wardrobe — a closed object, which slightly opening envelopes the spectator by its tale, includes one into itself. The interiors of the wardrobe are painted over and pasted by small picture shots with subtitle signatures. Thanks to the built in gauges of movement the wardrobe opens its doors when the spectator approaches; it lights its internal bulbs and plays street organ melody, trying to grasp the spectator’s attention completely. The closet is the place where in our childhood we have been hiding from the outer world, and where from at night our fears came out to us. It is a door to a weird, magical world that stands in
a corner having peacefully nestled; but when everyone falls asleep, the door slightly opens and lets chimeras out.
Lera Nibiru
I ask these questions to myself every moment. Do I ask myself? Was the world that I see created by me? The project is dedicated to the problems of self-identiifcation and solipsism. It is a graphic series about one character — little girl Lerochka, who in a feverish nod has discovered herself beginning a journey through the endless if elds of consciousness. One eye of the little heroine is open to the fairytale reality, and the other – the “normal” one - is reminding her of the need to return. But where can she return? How to single out of thousands of realities the one where the journey began from? Having once started, the journey never ends.
The dream is always “on the other side”. The consciousness tries to overcome the obtrusive images from childhood, to choose the lasting delusion, to clarify its paranoia, to if nd the borders of the world, but the world cannot be structuralized, thus opening inconsistency of logic.
The journey unfolds inside a wardrobe — a closed object, which slightly opening envelopes the spectator by its tale, includes one into itself. The interiors of the wardrobe are painted over and pasted by small picture shots with subtitle signatures. Thanks to the built in gauges of movement the wardrobe opens its doors when the spectator approaches; it lights its internal bulbs and plays street organ melody, trying to grasp the spectator’s attention completely. The closet is the place where in our childhood we have been hiding from the outer world, and where from at night our fears came out to us. It is a door to a weird, magical world that stands in
a corner having peacefully nestled; but when everyone falls asleep, the door slightly opens and lets chimeras out.
Lera Nibiru
