The Enigma of a Dream

A surreal exploration of the subconscious mind through art and design

Director Grace Hartnett invites you to peel back the layers of your mind and delve into your subconscious in a film that explores the mystery of dreaming. The Enigma of a Dream is a conceptual short film based on the journey of the mind slipping between states of awareness and tapping into the unknown depths of the human psyche.

Grace Hartnett is a multidisciplinary artist who primarily focuses on film direction and set design. By balancing surreal science experiments against organic forms, The Enigma of a Dream becomes a stage for multiple scenes within unconscious states of being.

The Enigma of a Dream is structured around lecture recordings from Indian spiritual guide Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl Jung. One of Jung’s influencers and predecessors was Sigmund Freud. According to the father of psychoanalysis, dreams can represent desires, be an expression of our fears, or as a form of wish fulfillment. With all the technological advancements science has made in the twenty-first century, our collective understanding of dreaming has not developed much beyond Freud's original 1899 theory.

Hartnett’s scenography expresses how dreams can bring awareness to the undiscovered aspects of the mind, in contrast to waking life where thoughts are shaped by the conscious mind and confined by our perceived state of awareness.

May 5, 2021

Rambert x (LA)HORDE: Bring Your Own

In a major collaboration with (LA)HORDE, Rambert dancers take on the French company’s work at London’s Southbank Centre for Bring Your Own. Gritty, sensual, and fiercely real, the explosive programme presents (LA)HORDE’s choreography in three parts – channeling the energy and spirit of Lindy Hop through today’s lens for Hop(e)storm, exploring intimacy, consent and sex-positivity under the neon lights of the LA club scene for Weather is Sweet, and taking a visceral look inwards at what we stand for in A Room With a View. Bring Your Own is the first chapter of a dynamic collaboration between Rambert and (LA)HORDE, premiering ahead of performances at The Lowry in Salford and Truro’s Hall for Cornwall. 7 - 10 May 2025.

SMAC San Marco Art Centre Opens

A pioneering new arts center in Venice, spanning visual arts, architecture, fashion, technology, and film, SMAC opens to the public on 9 May. Taking over the second floor of the Procuratie in Piazza San Marco, SMAC examines contemporary visual culture against history, science, philosophy, and society from a new exhibition space comprising 16 galleries. To coincide with the 19th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2025, SMAC’s inaugural programme features two solo exhibitions dedicated to Australian modern architect Harry Seidler and pioneering Korean landscape designer Jung Youngsun – ahead of an upcoming programme realised in collaboration with world-class international institutions and curators. Opens 9 May.

David Hockney 25

David Hockney, one of the most influential artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, has taken over the entire building of the Fondation Louis Vuitton for an exhibition that is exceptional in its scale and originality. David Hockey 25 brings together more than 400 of his works (from 1955 to 2025), including paintings from international, institutional, and private collections, as well as works from the artist’s own studio and Foundation. The exhibition shows how the artist has continually renewed both his subjects and his mode of expression, reinventing his art with the use of new media to become a champion of new technologies. Until 31 August.

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