IlaSahai Prouty
North Carolina
Artist Statement Submitted 2015
My on-going project, Dream Repeater, is a series of actions and installations involving printmaking, sculpture, video, performance and collaboration. Each piece explores the themes embedded in an anonymously donated dream. I adopt the dreams as my own and retell them. I live with them over time. I recreate them, and I invite others to do so along with me. Dream Repeater displays the transmission of power through narrative, by morphing an intimate bit of story into a riff on the open cultural exchange. Recent themes include balance, girl power, false promise, frustration, naïveté and futility.I aim to create powerful, uncanny, smart and entertaining work that prompts us to contemplate how we give power and create the narratives of our culture. I make cross-genre work as a way of inhabiting the world, and removing barriers between makers, audience and community. I am caught up in these stories and how repetition can generate cultural importance.
