Ghost of a Dream: without a king,
everybody wants some heaven
Upper Gallery
May 28 - July 8, 2023
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“As we were collecting [the lottery tickets], we started thinking about the people behind the tickets: whose hopes are these, and what do they want when they’re scratching?”
Lauren Was, Ghost of a Dream
Ghost of a Dream is a collaborative artist duo (Lauren Was and Adam Eckstrom) whose work centers on the ephemera of people's hopes and dreams. Our exhibition reconceptualizes collages made from discarded lottery tickets, which they created for the oratorio of Santa Maria Della Vita in Bologna.
"Repetitive hope keeps people going... whether your faith is going to church on Sundays in search of an everlasting future, or whether it's going to the bodega and spending five bucks every Friday at 5pm. Whatever your religion is, it’s about the hope that you're going to win in the end."
Adam Eckstrom, Ghost of a Dream
Santa Maria della Vita, Bologna (installation view, 2011)
"[The scratch cards] were all over the ground. As we continued picking them up, we realized they were beautiful objects, because they each had someone’s signature. Everyone scratches them in a different way. Once you have amassed a collection, you start to recognize the same person's ephemera."
Adam Eckstrom, Ghost of a Dream