News clipping on Roberto Chabet's solo exhibition, 'The Interpretation of Dreams', published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on 17 April 1995. 'The Interpretation of Dreams' was held at West Gallery from 24 March - 17 April 1995. The clipping also includes announcements for Katya Guerrero's exhibition 'The Revolving Door', and Jonathan Olazo's 'Moon Paintings', both curated by Roberto Chabet.
The full press release of 'The Interpretation of Dreams', written by Chabet reads, 'Common-place objects like clocks, suitcases, alphabet blocks, a conch shell from a half-forgotten vacation, a plastic harmonica, umbrellas, a parachute bought at an army surplus store - these are objects that appear and re-appear in (my) assemblages and installations.
In 'The Interpretation of Dreams', some of these objects are seen again, but instead of appearing predictably common-place they have lost their familiarity and seem to have become unidentifiable foreign objects in new territories that are as foreign and unidentifiable.
Misplaced, displaced, dislocated, and relocated in new contexts, the objects demand new readings, reveal new meanings. In (my) work objects are texts. The use and re-use of the text determine meaning.
In the four new works, the objects have become dream images with all the slippages of a dream. More than images they have become in their uncanniness, objects that have assumed an unconsciousness. They have become dream objects - perhaps, dreams themselves.'
Onsite
English
painting,  installation,  found object,  found object,  conceptualism
17 Apr 1995
Philippine Daily Inquirer, 17 Apr 1995
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