Kim reached out across Denmark with an open invitation for people to submit their dreams to the artist’s dream archive. 50 were selected for the exhibition, and Kim has interpreted ten selected dreams, that will continuously be released on this page (available in English and Danish).

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“Dreams come with important messages. I learned that as a child. Since I was thirteen, I’ve been writing them down. Most people don’t attach much value to their dreams, even though many seem to have one that keeps lingering in their memory.

Is it possible that a miracle is dreamt every single night – without us ever noticing? We usually think our dreams are relevant only to ourselves, but the archive was created with the idea that a dream can belong to the collective, that it can be a shared matter in the name of equality. I want to show that the personal is universal, and to me, The Public Dream Archive is a spiritual counterpart to the women’s movement’s slogan from the 1960s: ‘The personal is political.’

When we imagine a better world, we envision a utopia. We must first have a dream to begin any process of change. Imagine if a great cultural shift could start with something as humble as a small dream born in the darkness of night.

It reminds me of the story of Dumbo the elephant. Dumbo believes he can only fly when he’s holding his magic feather. Later, he discovers that he can fly without it – his great ears were enough all along. Dumbo just needed that little magical amulet to take off.

My wish is to gather hundreds of your dream feathers and transform them into a shamanic feather cape. What might happen if someone were to put such a cape on?

To my surprise, I discovered that nearly all the dreams I chose to interpret are adult recollections of their very first childhood dreams. They have survived the passage of time and remained with the dreamer throughout life. That alone proves their deep significance. They carry such a sense of destiny that they almost sound like a prophecy spun by the Norns themselves.”