The Sleep of Reason

2016, single-channel animation, 0:20 min, loop, after Roman Cieślewicz, The Sleep of Reason, 1976

The Sleep of Reason takes Roman Cieślewicz's poster of the same title from 1976 and sets it in motion: a mind falling asleep, frame by frame. The animation translates the static surface of the poster into duration – the moment in which reason gives way.

Selected for and shown at the 25th International Poster Biennale in Warsaw, The Poster Remediated, curated by David Crowley, Poster Museum at Wilanów, 12 June – 25 September 2016. Published in the exhibition catalogue.

Poster Museum at Wilanów·Exhibition catalogue·The Poster Remediated, RCA