Surrender to the Dreamers

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Surrender to the Dreamers

Michael Borowski, Anaïs Boudot, Timotheus Büttner, Cai Dongdong, Ioanna Sakellaraki, Ria Wank

“Surrender to the Dreamers” presents recent artistic perspectives on surrealism and photography, thus engaging in dialogue with the exhibition “FOTOGAGA. Max Ernst and Photography. A visit from the Würth Collection”, currently on view at the Museum für Fotografie until April 27, 2025. “Surrender to the Dreamers” is organized and curated by analogueNOW, a Berlin-based non-profit association bringing together artists, photographers, curators, educators and photo-enthusiasts in order to promote analog photography. 

"Surrender to the Dreamers" delves into photography as a medium able to transcend the limits of the visible and venture beyond mere sensory perception. In both exhibitions, artists utilize photography to unveil the hidden and conjure previously unseen, unfamiliar visions.

Through hands-on manipulation and experimentation, the featured artists excavate family secrets, shed light on forgotten women, and reconstruct missing archives, among other pursuits. By materializing shadows and actualizing dreams, the works in the exhibition go far beyond mere escapism. They engage with and challenge dominant representations of reality. 

By means of imagination, fiction, and reconstruction, the artists demonstrate how photography can be employed to reveal new ways of seeing and narrating personal, familial, and collective histories. Rather than a result, the photographic image becomes a raw material, altered and reshaped to address absences and fill gaps.

An exhibition by analogueNOW in cooperation with the Kunstbibliothek – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, curated by Claire Ducresson-Boët and Thomas Ming-Hui Stank