Kaleidoscope of Dreams (2009-2010)
“Through the creation of my previous works I have been consistently using self-portrait and auto-reference because we all perceive the world around us through our own prism and that is the only way of representing my vision of the world that surrounds us. I used my body as an aesthetic element of my photographs but in this series that auto-reference transcends to a different level, to the subconscious one, as I am trying to create a kind of “mental self portrait”, a reflection of a dreamlike vision.
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These dream sections are representing fragments of memories, vague visions of faceless characters and spaces which we encounter; they are symbols of unconscious fluctuations of the human mind. They are reminiscences of the day, of the childhood and our short-term memory. I wanted to explore, to “capture” that elusive déjà vú moment in which everything we see and experience seems so familiar. As we already lived through that same scenario. Although strange and uncanny, we are aware of the “freshness” and actuality of the experienced and through our eclectic memory we find adequate interpretations. By re-examination of pragmatic experiences and by subtle play with spectators’ senses, I wanted to explore the mechanisms of the human sub-consciousness and make them read through the layers of their personality. By invoking subconscious currents we might find the underlying pattern in this random and accidental imagery.
This body of work offers insight in just one possible dream version, a scenario subordinated to changes… It is without possessor, it floats freely throughout the hypnotic universe of reveries. Maybe this time it is mine, some other time it will be yours, somebody’s, everybody’s…”
Nina Šperanda, III. 2010.
Nina Šperanda was born in Pula, Croatia in 1983. She holds a MA in Cinematography from Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb and is currently living and loving Prag where she applied for an MA in Photography at FAMU.
