England’s oldest psychiatric hospital stages haunting new exhibition of patient art
Dead squirrels, haunted dreamscapes and anxious midnight thoughts: Bethlem’s new exhibition explores how patients have long wrestled with sleep and nightmares through art.
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00:00So this exhibition is called Between Sleeping and Waking,
00:29and what we've done is taken the work of sleep researchers and they've developed a taxonomy of the dreams that are most commonly shared widely across society and across cultures as well.
00:43And then we've gone to our museum's rich collection of reserve artworks,
00:50and we've managed to find a picture that kind of illustrates every single one of those archetypes as it were.
00:59What he did was painted for his doctors scenes that tried to explain to them all of his preoccupations and difficulties,
01:18and in particular this picture called Nightmare is a composite of all the many nightmares that dogged him at the time.
01:28This one is, to the left of that, a really disturbing depiction of him imagining what it would be like if he had his father,
01:38with whom he had a difficult relationship at his mercy and he was bashing his brains out with a rock.
01:47Above here, there's a, you can see a bicycle here falling off a cliff,
01:52and a sort of a cliff path that gets increasingly narrow.
01:57So that reflects a nightmare in which this is precisely what happened.
02:14This artwork is about insomnia and the kind of weird states that we occupy in the middle of the night.
02:24So it's made from duvets and pillowcases and bedding and it's all written over with those kind of anxious kind of thoughts
02:34that we have the irrational kind of weirdness that insomnia really generates.
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