installation
hipnopompia
is an installation by David Bastos created for the Project Room at 289.
In this installation the artist seeks the relationship between beings and light and how it manifests itself in their bodies announcing their recognition.
Proposing the viewer to enter a state on the surface of sleep, almost blurred from what is between depth and light, between sleep and the body.
pvc / wood / speaker driver / buzzer / steel / strobe light / powdered chalk / fluorescent colorants / sand / glue / spray paint / UV-A light lamp
text and curatorship by José Jesus
exhibited at 289 / Project Room
Faro / Portugal / 2022
The term "hypnopompia" derives from Ancient Greek roots: "hypno-" from hypnos (ὕπνος), meaning "sleep," and "-pompia" from pompe (πομπή), referring to a "procession" or "sending forth," thus connoting the emergence or transition out of sleep.'