“If the doors of perception were purified, everything would be shown as it is: infinite.” William Blake.

The use of hallucinogenic plants in ecstatic rituals, together with the dream experience, have been throughout history some of the forms of knowledge in which the perception of what we consider the “real” world is modified or increased.

The dreamlike and imaginary participate in the magic of ecstasy. Deep psychologies cover aspects of reality that cannot be explained through matter, they account for the vital dimension that they represent for the human being as a whole. Imaginary experience is part of man at the same level as daytime experience and practical-rational activities. We could suggest then that dreams and visions build a symbolic imaginary where the unconscious manifests itself in the form of archetypes, animals and fantastic beings, intertwining the real and the transcendent with the depths of the human being.

In the dream universe that Cavalcante and Muleiro propose to us, we can see figures submerging in primordial waters that are then reborn under a golden sky, populated with geometric shapes, and characters addressed by masked beings that enter the skin of a snake. A mystical strangeness manifests itself. The works of these two artists not only invite contemplation: the costumes and masks found in the room invite us to look through them, to imagine the gaze of the shaman that expands and multiplies what we perceive around us.

It could be said that this exhibition attempts to immerse us in the depths of unknown knowledge and reveal different layers of meaning that finally become wrapped in mystery.