Dreams & the Unconscious

From Piranesi's impossible prisons to Bosch's hallucinatory triptychs, from Goya's "Sleep of Reason" to the Symbolists' twilight worlds — this collection maps the visual language of the unconscious across five centuries.

The Carceri d'Invenzione (1745-61) inaugurate the modern nightmare: architecture that defies physics, staircases that lead nowhere, spaces of infinite confinement. Bosch paints a world where the boundary between waking and dreaming dissolves entirely. Goya's Caprichos and Disparates document the monsters that reason's sleep produces. The Symbolists — Redon, Moreau, Klinger, Kubin — turn inward, making the unconscious itself the subject of art.

What unites these works is not style or period but orientation: they face away from the visible world and toward the invisible one within.