Tumultuous Dreams of Modern Living

Tumultuous Dreams of Modern Living is a public art installation at Oi! Street Art Space in Hong Kong, commissioned by the Hong Kong Leisure and Cultural Services Department, with an original score by James Kelly.

Shot entirely in camera using miniatures and LED screens with no post VFX, the work provides viewers with a voyeuristic perspective into an upside-down bedroom, where a sleeping person experiences a turbulent dream in which time and space collapse into a visualization of the anxieties of the postmodern condition. During the phases of dreaming (titled Recall, Reset, Reorient, Realign, and Return), the dreamer experiences moments in which fragmented memories are recalled and reprocessed in a sort of ego death.