THE DREAM OF EVERY ARTIST

the dream of every artist
videoinstalación
Projector, mattress, sheets, pillow, water bottle, sketchbooks, pencils, and hazelnuts

90 x 190 x 30 cm

The Dream of Every Artist, by Eugenio Ampudia (2000), constructs a reflection based on a minimal gesture: a bed that slowly makes and unmakes itself under the invisible weight of an absent body. An everyday object is transformed into an unsettling presence.
The piece is situated in a realm of uncertainty. We do not know whether someone has just left the bed, whether they are still there asleep, or whether we are merely witnessing the memory of a presence. The viewer must complete the narrative based on their own experience.
This video installation already features some of the elements that would define much of the artist’s later work: the use of minimal actions capable of altering our perception of the everyday, and a trust in the viewer’s poetic capacity to construct meaning. Long before developing the Where to Sleep series, Ampudia transforms the act of sleeping here into an open-ended image—not as a gesture of occupation or resistance, but as a state suspended between reality and imagination.