Exhibitions2017In a dream you saw a way to survive and you were full of joy (Glynn Vivian Gallery)

In a dream you saw a way to survive and you were full of joy was curated by Turner Prize­winning artist Elizabeth Price (b.1966), which opened at the The University of Manchester’s Whitworth on 10th June 2016, and went on to tour to the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, and the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. This was part of a series of Hayward Touring exhibitions curated by artists.

The exhibition was staged as ‘an austere melodrama’ exploring the psychological and formal power of the horizontal, in a vast repertoire of images of the reclining or recumbent body­ in varying states of weariness, stupor, reverie, grief, death, erotic transport and languor. Installations were designed to create an immersive experience for the viewer, in which works are connected associatively, with ‘the slippery, fugitive logic of a dream’. The exhibition included sculptures, drawings, photographs, film and videos arranged in four loosely threaded sections: Sleeping, Working, Mourning and Dancing.

Featured artists included: Fikret Atay, Becky Beasley,  Simon Bedwell, Claire Makhlouf Carter, Edward Onslow Ford, Loie Fuller and The Lumiére Brothers, Henry Fuseli, Richard Hamilton, Gustav Metzger, Katrina Palmer, Gavin Turk, Giulio Paolini Bridget Riley, Jo Spence, Carolee Schneeman and Francesca Woodman.