Antonia Nilsson is a poet and novelist who loves art. She collaborates with several artists all over the world and writes poems inspired by the atmosphere and ideas that emerge from the meeting between writing and visual arts. Recently at the art Biennale in Venice she collaborated with the Swedish artist Ragnhild Lunden.
Antonia aims to turn poetry into a way of living together with dance, performance, and music. So also, for this book. The poems are partly autobiographical showing mental landscapes and processes in flux between the material world and the realm of subconsciousness. It addresses ways in which a person can give painful and traumatic events a meaning. In her poems Antonia addresses the deep humbleness, humanity, and divinity in one that only arts can address.
Safwan Dahoul is one of the foremost painters in the Arab world. He has repeatedly demonstrated how contemporary modes of figuration can describe the psychic terrain of a region that is in constant flux.
He is known for his melancholic and monochromatic works that present influences from the Cubist style to Assyrian and Pharaonic art.
The dream series explore the physical and psychological effects of alienation, solitude and longing that punctuate the human experience at various stages in life.
Partly autobiographical, this seminal body of work uses the formal properties of painting to recreate the subconscious sense of enclosure that surfaces during times of Chrysis.
The artists recurring female protagonist facilitates this visceral experience trough her contorted body, often vacant eyes, and minimized yet monumental physicality.