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Newspaper clipping on Roberto Chabet's solo exhibition, 'The Interpretation of Dreams', published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on 27 March 1995.  'The Interpretation of Dreams' was held at West Gallery from 24 March - 17 April 1995.

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.'

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Language

English

Publication/Creation date

27 Mar 1995

Source of publication

Philippine Daily Inquirer, 27 Mar 1995

Content type

news reportage

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The Interpretation of Dreams