Marres presents  Dreaming Awake, a tropical rainforest peeled back in layers. The exhibition is about the experience of touch caused by strong outside forces. The Amazon wilderness, moist, damp, sticky, deafening, breathtaking, is the most invasive form in which a landscape forces itself upon us. Once you’re inside, there is no escape. The pressure of the environment is so powerful and hypnotic that it propels people into a dreamstate. Dreaming Awake aims to bring that experience to the visitors of Marres.

The immersive project is developed by the Brazilian curator Luiza Mello and Marres director Valentijn Byvanck in collaboration with the artists Luiz Zerbini, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. The accompanying publication contains texts by Eduardo Kohn, Bruno Latour and  Eduardo Viveiros de Castro.
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané presents Phantom & Spiral Forest.
For many years, Steegmann Mangrané (Barcelona, 1977) has studied the Brazilian jungle through works that are focused on the powerful contrast between human perception and the intense reality offered by the jungle. In Marres, he presents two works produced in the tropical forest of Brazil’s Southwest, the Atlantic Forest, one of the world’s most rapidly disappearing ecosystems. The film Spiral Forest was shot with a hinged, gyroscope-like device in which an object can rotate 360 degrees while remaining upright. The body of the spectator is turned spinning in the continuous spiral of Spiral Forest and projected into it, entering the flow of the image in motion. In the second work, Phantom, the visitors use a virtual device to enter and move through a forest scanned in black and white. (Marres press-release)