nothing but myth: what happens in the dream stays in the dream
The photographic series “Nocturnal Shift” is inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare and engages with the disruption of stable boundaries - between human and creature, between love and enchantment, between role and authenticity.
Here, everything is displaced, and identity becomes fluid.
The theatrical “miracle” takes on a different condition: the figures do not fully transform—they become suspended within the act of transformation itself.
It is a moment of metamorphosis left unresolved, a rupture between forms.
The play’s central theme of illusion is reinterpreted through the language of fashion imagery, where illusion is exposed as construction. Costume, makeup, and staged presence do not create an alternate reality; rather, they reveal its instability. There is no fixed ground—only a continuous state of transition.
In this way, the work uncovers one of the play’s deeper concerns: the instability of form and identity. What remains is movement itself—a perpetual passage that resists resolution.
It is like a dream that never arrives at awakening, but instead freezes at the point of transformation—where return is no longer possible, yet becoming something else has not fully occurred. What persists is only what has always been: a state of in-between.
Created for ArtBeesGallery // TO MINT, OR NOT TO MINT // cryptoart exhibition, part of Craiova International Shakespeare Featival 2026.
Curator NONE32X32
