Galeria Art Foto, Częstochowa, Poland
Opening: 29.01.2010, 6pm

Exhibition open until 27.02.2010

The project was supported by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland.

“...The title of the cycle, REM, refers to the stage in our sleep during which dreams occur. The stage is characterized by the specific state of our bodies; a sleep paralysis which disables any physical reaction to the situations observed during the dream, and the rapid movement of eye-balls, which allows us to watch virtual images in our mind (hence the name of the stage, REM, meaning Rapid Eye Movement). Hueckel examines the fears and obsessive illusions hidden inside the visions of these dreams. However, she doesn’t recreate the visual form of the latter but instead tries to picture what they conceal. She reaches beneath their façade to reveal what Sigmund Freud would call our subconscious, hysterical phobias. This act of uncovering can be seen as an individual wrestling with what’s hidden in the depths of the mind and which forces its way out in uncontrolled moments. (...)”
Dorota Łuczak, “Images underneath the eyelids”, introduction to the exhibition catalogue “REM cycle”