Yulia Mahr, Speaking in Dreams
Client
Year
Location
Compton Verney, Warwickshire UK
Project
Role
Co-exhibition Design (alongside the artist), technical design, renderings
Speaking in Dreams is a large-scale sculptural and photographic installation by Yulia Mahr that responds to the rare “Capability” Brown-designed chapel at Compton Verney. Elements from the natural world such as charcoal, taxidermy and ash will fill and challenge the pristine white interior of the chapel, offering a unique meditation on anxiety as a defining characteristic of our time.
A key element of the work relates to the presence of crows on the site. Crows are prevalent in British and European folklore as mediators between the worlds of the living and the dead, signalling omens and prophecy. Through this installation Mahr creates windows between the worlds that question our modern understanding of society and of the role of the crow within it.
Our role consisted in supporting the artist in the proposal’s development through visualizations, technical drawings, and exhibition design.
<span data-metadata=""><span data-buffer="">"Crows – which appear in my piece – symbolise warning almost universally across folklore traditions. Their urgent call couldn’t be louder"
YULIA MAHR
Images: courtesy of the artist