Novoriznica is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition "Substance of Dreams," featuring works by Serbian artists Theodora Neshkovich and Milena Milosavlevich. The opening will take place on May 29th from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM.

The exhibition offers an engaging visual journey through states of sleep, presenting them as two complementary stages. The works by Theodora Neshkovich reflect the initial stage — a fragile moment when reality is still perceptible, but the imagined world is already transforming, filling with allegories and myths. Her paintings, exploring themes of women's social positions, imposed roles, and beauty stereotypes, become a gateway into a space of shimmering meanings, where stars, birds, and mirrors are wrapped in light that blurs the boundaries between waking and dreaming.

Milena Milosavljevic's creations represent the final stage of sleep — when it freezes and its images acquire clear, even rigid forms. These are tangible traces of experienced dreams, expressed through reliefs of digital pasts. This search for physical embodiment of fleeting experiences, deeply linked to the artist's interest in the connection between virtual and real, is reflected in works created in mixed techniques, where digital printing on aluminum and collages appear as hybrid artifacts, emphasizing the idea of transforming an immaterial substance into something tangible.

The dialogue between Neshkovich’s fluid symbolism and Milosavljevic’s structured forms creates a layered "dream chronicle," demonstrating the transition from imagination to materiality. This is not merely a comparison of sleep phases but a meeting of different artistic strategies and even generations of artists, raising questions about the nature of memory, the influence of technology on our subconscious, and the possibilities of translating the immaterial into art.

"The dreams are not so much ephemeral images as a real substance of our inner world," says exhibition curator Ilia Shipilovskikh. "This project is unique in how it demonstrates the process of transforming dreams, their shift from a fragile, symbolic state to an almost tangible trace in our world. The dialogue between Theodora’s lyrical paintings and Milena’s digital reliefs offers viewers not only a glimpse into the dream but also prompts reflection on the nature of memory, reality, and the trace we leave in the digital age."

The "Substance of Dreams" exhibition promises to be an unusual meditation on the interaction between imagination and reality and will be interesting to anyone interested in contemporary art, perception psychology, and the relationship between humans and digital environments.