Desilence

Paramnesia is a cognitive anomaly in which memory becomes unreliable, and the distinction between lived experience and imagined events begins to dissolve. For the paramnesiac, a dream may possess the density and conviction of reality, while an actual event can be distorted or elaborated, creating a false memory.

The exhibition Paramnésico operates within this unstable terrain of recollection. Here, memory does not function as a structured archive, but as reconstruction — an active, ongoing process of substituting reality with the unreal. Rather than narrating specific dreams or events, the works examine the mechanisms through which the subconscious edits, suppresses, and transforms experiences until they become internally coherent, regardless of their origin.

The exhibition is conceived as a constellation of dream fragments suspended between memory and oblivion. Each piece functions as a oneiric residue — something not fully remembered, yet retained within the body; an incomplete, open image that never settles completely. The works unfold in soft, continuous loops whose slowness is essential: duration allows the image to remain unresolved, as something resurfaced only partially.

Visually, the works evoke alchemy: forms dissolve and recombine as if pigments were diffusing through water. A landscape with a solitary tree gradually mutates into an ambiguous organic form, then disperses into abstraction, only to reconstitute itself — a subtle game the subconscious plays with memory and form.

Figurative and abstract elements coexist, constructing a passage through different psychic registers. Paramnésico does not offer narrative clarity. Instead, it inhabits the unstable space where what we believe we remember may never have been entirely real.

Written by Anna Leven