작가가 어린 시절부터 간직해 온 페스툼 도시 안내 책자에서 출발하여, 그 형식과 구조를 빌려온 아코디언 북 형태의 작업입니다. 앞면의 다채로운 컬러 이미지 시퀀스와 뒷면의 흑백 텍스트는 어느 한쪽이 주가 되지 않은 채 서로를 반사하며, 고대의 흔적과 풍경, 서적의 파편, 그리고 사진과 영화를 다시 촬영한 그레인과 픽셀의 레이어를 부유하듯 펼쳐 보입니다. 이미지의 단순한 설명을 넘어 수수께끼를 더하는 뒷면의 글귀들은 관람자에게 양면을 쉼 없이 오가는 시선의 왕복을 유도하며, 제목이 암시하듯 오직 읽기의 행위를 통해서만 깨어나는 시간의 미로 속 몽상으로 우리를 이끕니다.

This edition takes as its point of departure an old tourist booklet devoted to the city of Paestum—an object the artist has cherished since childhood. From it, rêverie revers borrows both its framework and its form: a leporello unfolding as a long sequence of color images on one side and black-and-white captions on the other.

As is often the case in the artist’s work, the sources of inspiration are both multiple and subterranean, surfacing in the visible and the readable realm only through fragments, allusions, and incomplete traces. One can discern remnants of antiquity, southern and northern landscapes, and excerpts from books. Some are first-hand images; others are photographs of photographs or of films, revealing their grains and pixels in close-ups that verge on abstraction. All gradations of blue and green unfold, punctuated by the ochre of stone and the white of pages.

The texts that appear on the reverse of these images, rather than fixing their meaning like simple captions, instead deepen their mystery. With neither side subordinated to the other, the two faces echo one another, inviting a play of back-and-forths, rebounds, and returns. As its title suggests, the work is above all about reverie—those wanderings of thought through the labyrinth of time that only the act of reading can awaken.

Offset printed leporello

Folded: 15.7 × 7.8 cm 
Unfolded: 15.7 × 131.4 cm

Edition of 60 copies, numbered and stamp-signed, 3 artist's proofs, 3 publisher’s proofs, and 10 hors-commerce copies