Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016

In Andrea Crespo’s work, the screen is a sensual interface on which images are constantly appearing, splitting, rejoining, and disappearing in a composite of selves that presents identity as a complex state of being. Hand-drawn figures appear, their embodiments ambiguous or multiple, punctuated by words and phrases describing internal states. Identities, biological and psychological states merge fluidly, revealed then wiped away by the hypnotic white light of a vertical scanner, whose slow, calming movement engages various registers of bilateral sensory perception.