Nelli Wilhelm
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A night-blue town square full of wonders: melting clocks, clowns and winged dolls at the upper left, a steam locomotive on rails below them. At the centre stands a house whose open storey holds a tightrope walker in a red dress beneath a circus canopy. At the right a violinist flies over the roofs, a couple embraces in mid-air, and three girls in red and blue stand on the cobbles. A rose grows out of the water in the foreground.

The City That Dreams

A city at night turns into a stage for the impossible. Clocks begin to melt, figures float, a violinist flies over the roofs and a rose grows out of the water. Public space suddenly follows the rules of a dream. Even so the scene does not feel chaotic but like a world with an inner order of its own. Each figure experiences a different portion of this reality. “The City That Dreams” turns on its head the idea that only people dream — perhaps a place too has its memories, wishes and secrets.