Dreams are one of the fundamental elements of Selvagem. Dreams guide us, show us the ways, offer words and drawings that are later incorporated into materials and activities.

Dreams are also present in the books and speeches of the constellation of thinkers that accompany the Selvagem cycle. For the Kehiriporã clan, or sons of the drawings of the dream, from the Desana people, there was no world before and it only came into existence when it was dreamt. Life, the world, or what we make of it, would be a drawing made in an invisible dimension during waking hours.

Teacher plants, by leading people through immersions in the profound knowledge of life, often lead to states that resemble daydreaming. Also through dreams, shamans and other people can experience metamorphosis, trialling being other – or even being the life that flows through different forms and bodies.

There are cultures that look after this portal and ensure that their children are alphabetised in the oniric language. We live in a world that projects itself based on data, scenarios and statistics. This rational condition has banished dreams to the status of reverie, fantasy or even delirium.

ABOUT THE CYCLE

For the Dreams cycle, Selvagem consulted the knowledge of persons, cultures and peoples who trust the language and transformative power of dreams. 

It includes 4 online meetings, notebooks and complementary materials, which you can access via the icons on this page. 

We invited the artist Zoé Dubus, author of the works that illustrate the cycle, to accompany the meetings and create drawings based on the conversations published in the Notebook Selvagem Desligue as luzes e escute.

Zoé Dubus is French and lives in Paris. She graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de la Cambre, in Brussels. She works with sculpture, drawing and painting. 

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