Sleep is a state in which the body continues to act beyond intention. A hand moves, a blanket falls, a sock disappears. The familiar order of things becomes unstable, and minor events acquire an unexpected significance.

A Lost Sock emerges from this territory between everyday experience and dream logic. The works are built from ordinary objects and images, yet each of them appears somehow displaced, as if remembered imperfectly after waking. Scales shift, functions dissolve, and relationships between things become uncertain.

In dreams, trivial incidents often carry a disproportionate weight. The loss of a sock can feel as consequential as a cosmic event. A damaged object may seem to preserve a forgotten message. The vastness of a night sky can become contained within a small and fragile frame. Dreams do not erase reality; they reorganize it according to different principles, granting attention to what would otherwise remain unnoticed.

Made from papier-mâché and painted with oil, gouache and acrylic paint, the sculptures embrace awkwardness, vulnerability and transformation. Their handmade surfaces retain traces of construction, resisting the illusion of permanence or perfection. They occupy a space between object and image, memory and invention, humour and melancholy.

The title refers to the comic possibility that a sock may be lost during sleep—a minor gesture of an unconscious body. This absurd image serves as a point of departure for reflecting on the strange logic of dreaming, where objects become detached from their ordinary roles and begin to exist within a reality shaped by association, displacement and chance. Rather than illustrating dreams, the works inhabit a condition of dreaming: a state in which the familiar world quietly slips out of alignment and reveals itself anew.

All exhibitions open on Friday, August 28 at 5pm and remain open during each location’s regular opening hours until September 4.