Exhibition Dates: February 28 – March 6, 2025
Opening Event: February 28, 2025 | 17:30
Venue: Unihood x2 & Temperature Home, 253 Eversholt St, NW1 1BA, London
Producer: Oscar Jiaao Yin
Curator: Janelle Jiabin Xu
Curatorial execution: Gaga Xingcheng Xu
Co-curator: Ivy Weiyi Chen
Where Daydreams Reconstruct Reality
Silver Can Art proudly presents “DAYDREAM: Halfway Between Here and Not”, a contemporary art exhibition exploring the fluid boundaries between reality and imagination. Running from February 28 to March 6, 2025, at Unihood x2 & Temperature Home in London, the show features works from 50+ international artists across various mediums, including painting, sculpture, textile, installation, film.
Inspired by Carl Jung’s concept of “active imagination”, this exhibition redefines daydreaming as a tool for subconscious exploration and self-individuation. In today’s fast-evolving technological landscape, where reality is constantly reshaped, daydreams become both an escape and a means of reconstructing the world. Personal memories, collective consciousness, and artificial intelligence intersect in this dreamlike space, creating a complex interplay of past experiences, shared narratives, and digital cognition.
Daydreams are often seen as unrealistic fantasies, brief escapes from reality. However, inspired by Jung’s concept of “active imagination,” this exhibition redefines daydreams as a tool for engaging with the subconscious and achieving self-individuation.
In this space, daydreaming becomes a hidden escape during wakefulness, drifting between reality and illusion. It reflects desires, stitches together memories, and serves as a creative process where consciousness meanders. Through the interpretations of the participating artists, the exhibition attempts to reconstruct our understanding of the real world, creating a multi-layered realm of imagination.
Here, perception merges with fluid narratives, and the boundaries between the inner and outer worlds blur. Everything is in a constant state of becoming, where boundaries fade and narratives fragment. The exhibition invites the audience to experience this “in-between” state—a liminal space where thoughts, memories, and desires converge, offering a new way of understanding both the world and the self.
FOUR EXHIBITION HALLS | FOUR DREAMSCAPES
The exhibition unfolded across four distinct spaces, each offering a unique exploration of the interplay between reality and imagination. First, in the initial space, visitors encountered works that delved into the emergence of daydreams, illustrating how individuals drift between fantasy and reality.
Moving into the second space, the focus shifted to the intersection of personal memory and collective consciousness, where artists used collage, video, and mixed media to depict the layering of time and reality.
In the third space, the boundaries between the figurative and the abstract became increasingly blurred. Here, fluid forms and shifting perceptions invited viewers into a surreal landscape where imagination took precedence over tangible reality.
Between the third and fourth spaces, a transitional hall featured photography and painting, capturing fleeting moments of reality while reflecting the ways in which artists navigate between the dreamlike and the tangible.
Finally, in the fourth space, the exhibition turned toward the future, exploring how artificial intelligence and emerging technologies shape our dreams and redefine the nature of reality itself.
FEATURED ARTISTS
This exhibition showcases works by 55 international artists, including:
Anastasia Abramova, MUCHU Ai, Ronn Beattie, Poppy Cauchi, Ivy Weiyi Chen, Xing Chen, Yiding Chen, Ziyang Chen, Jingshan Ding, Sally de Courcy, Hanbing Fang, Yixuan Han, Louise Hapton, Haoran Hou, Romilly Horton, Pan Huang, Jake Jacobs, Defeng Jin, Yezihong Jin, JEEHEE, Michalis Karaiskos, Vladimir Lalic, Lee Kay-Barry, Xingyu Li, Jun dai Lin, Guoyi Liu, Form Liu, Tia Liu, Ma Shirong, Mai Muraguchi, Miguel Sopena, Ivan Šuletić, Mingzhang Sun, Aura Sun, Xiao Tan, Xinyue Tao, Henryk Terpilowski, Jin Tian, Zhenzhen Tian, Chisara Vidale, Anya Wang, Xueshijia Wang, Yiru Wang, YY Wang, Yuyang (Lily) Wei, Daoguang Wen, Yahan Wu, Chengming Xing Maxim, Tingting Xiao, Dongyun Xie, Chen Yang, Peggy Yu, ZIAN ZENG, Xin Zhang, Qian Zhong.
ABOUT SILVER CAN ART
Silver Can Art is a London-based curatorial team founded by four Chelsea College of Arts graduates: Jiaao Yin, Xingcheng Xu, Jiabin Xu, Weiyi Chen. Silver Can Art creates dynamic exhibitions that foster dialogue between artists, audiences, and the broader art community. Our aim is to provide a platform for emerging artists to present their innovative and thought-provoking work while building a strong creative art network.
SPONSORS
LANJING
A remarkably unique museum presentation team, mixing expertise with fun in every presentation they delivered.
PHOENIX PALACE
PARTNERS
Venue: Unihood x2 & Temperature Home
Partnership: is Designed
Equipment Support: LONDON ART COLLECTIVE
Curator assistant: Shuting Da, Peiyi Song, Ziming He, Wenwei Li
Academic guidance: Liu Quan, Guoyi Liu
Special Thanks: Betty Liang, Zecheng Li, Xinhan He, and Chongxi Feng
