A project by Giusy Calia (born in Nuoro, lives and works in Sassari) which is part of the program of extra muros activities of the MAN museum. The value and function of a museum do not end within the perimeter of the building that identifies it, but naturally spread outside not only through concrete operations, but every time a visitor leaves the museum, taking impressions with them and the experience of art. The contemporary vocation of the museum, and its desire to dialogue with our extraordinarily complicated time, pushes us to find new ways together with young artists to convey a story that cannot only have institutional space as a reference, but needs to expose itself also to the social space.

Here then, dreams, writes Gavina Cherchi, become for Giusy Calia «the space of freedom, where everything is possible, they are the ways of being able to be stormy and enchanted, kaleidoscopic and “without censorship”». They are, therefore, the dizzying otherness, Giusy’s other life, remote and solitary like a mysterious island, in which beauty and pain mirror each other in the reflection of their loving tension.

The life I dream of is not, with its constraints, its censorships, its conditioning, it is sometimes irradiated, transfigured by it, as when it is crossed by the images in which those dreams, in an intermittent epiphany, are incorporated, becoming visible traces , clues, strong and peremptory reminders as only images can be. Have you ever visited my dreams? it is a request full of expectation, an invitation, an implied, pressing, painful question: “Why haven’t you visited my dreams yet?”. The images are then the silent heralds who proclaim, day and night, through the streets of the city, this appeal, so that they find the ways of the silent and restless heart for which they are destined, a hidden heart, which perhaps has been waiting for too long, without knowing it, in the shadows, may a visitor with a luminous gaze appear even on the threshold of his dreams.