The title of the exhibition refers to Francisco Goya’s print The Sleep of Reason Breeds Monsters from his famous series Caprichos – Caprices (1793-1799). Goya’s etching depicts the moment when the wakefulness of reason gives way to sleep and mental space is captured by nightmares and frightening images. It is this moment, when the boundaries of rationality break down and the dark contents of the unconscious take over, that becomes the starting point of a project in which contemporary authors explore the various phases of oneiric states, intimate rituals and hidden mental spaces, in which the positivist approach encounters magical, archetypal images of the collective unconscious. At a time when rationality is failing as a tool for a comprehensive understanding of reality, a return to intuition, imagination and dream structures seems an alternative way to navigate a world that has lost both legibility and stability.