The Moment before a Dream
The Moment before a Dream
2022
Single-channel video and performance lecture, HD video (color, sound), 15 minutes
Performed at Brooklyn Museum in November 2022 in conjunction with the exhibition Monet to Morisot: The Real and Imagined in European Art.
The Moment before a Dream is a film and performance lecture that rewrites archival spaces of darkness as sites of emancipation, refuge, and reinvention for the women put on display in ethnographic exhibitions at colonial world fairs.