I said I would finish,

but it started all over again.

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Bad Dream is a performative installation about traumatic experiences – repetitive and transferred from generation to generation. The war in Ukraine that started on February 24th opened the world's wound that has not been healed yet after previous battles. Most women's nightwear dresses hanging in the installation are from the Soviet Union's time, but embroidered phrases refer to current life events. It seems like nothing has ever changed, the history repeats itself like a bad dream. 

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This installation sees the world through women's eyes, the women's bodies – the ones who absorb the horrors of the war but still give birth and pass the life to this world. The white phrases embroidered with white threads on the same color material: war-life events, emotions refer to silent wounds suturing action. You won't even notice them from afar, but they exist and must be seen because that's the only way we heal as individuals and as a nation.

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The war is now going on in Ukraine, but embroidered phrases can be seen as individual experiences in various contexts. 

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The new world‘s an old dream and I‘m tired of dreams – Constance De Jong (Modern Love)