Le Premier Repas de la Vierge

written by Uta Guan Hyë

"Le premier repas de la vierge" explores Uta's dream series from 2022 and incorporates various aspects of her daily experiences, including physical and auditory sensations. The dreams’ psychological context exists within the network of associations that naturally take root in the dream. Uta takes into account the various contextual relationships and applies them to the dream’s text, which provides all the necessary clues for understanding. The index includes not just one but several texts, moving from the whole to fragments.

The realization of the text involves two different writers: the dreamer and the author, who are one and the same. The dreamer records the dreams as they happen, while the author rename and reinterpret them. Like in alchemy, the dream is transformed, with the author delving deeper into its imagery through the work of expanding technology and active imagination, distilling and elucidating its sacred and rich meanings, transforming them into concrete and spatial poetry. The author depicts the dreamer walking through a maze, striving to approach the unfathomable point in the dreamer's psyche. The author interrupts the dreamer's spontaneous movement, excavating the unconscious mind and personifying it as a diverse cast of "strangers" - boys, women, animals, and letters who "can only be listened to/watched but not interfered with" These themes encompass not only the archetype of the dreamer but also the relationship with a real woman who is simultaneously a mother, a personality, and a vessel of spirituality. The author dissects this woman and her manifestations, breaking her down into the unconscious, accompanied by the author's deep self-experience and guiding the dreamer out of the labyrinth on a symbolic path.

Free-form , 15pp, 148 x 210 mm, Stiff card wrapper with engraved titles, 152 x 252mm

AP limited version, 20 copies, with 2 posters - 297 x 420 mm