Spotlight: "We Live Inside a Dream" by Danae Panagiotidi
Project Title: "We Live Inside a Dream"
Artist Statement:
"We Live Inside a Dream" explores liminality and the in-between states of suspension where perception becomes unstable and reality appears fragmented, delayed, or doubled. The work moves through thresholds: between presence and absence, body and image, consciousness and its fading edges. The project originated from a deeply personal experience, when my mother was hospitalized in the ICU under deep sedation. Her subsequent, vivid recollections, dream-like fragments and fluid visions hovering between memory and fantasy, strikingly resembled Near-Death Experiences (NDEs), breaking through the surface of ordinary perception and opening a space for questioning what it means to exist in-between.
Rooted in the personal yet informed by research, the work moves between scientific reference and emotional metaphor. Concepts from quantum physics, neurology, and transpersonal psychology inform the project not as a way of explaining, but as an underlying structure of looking. Ideas of observation, uncertainty, and parallel states echo through the visual narrative, which functions as a non linear stream of consciousness. Moving between the intimate and the impersonal, the photographs inhabit a suspended space where time slows, boundaries soften, and identity loses its shape, while meaning emerges gradually, like an afterimage still forming.
Bio:
Danae Panagiotidi is a visual artist based in Athens, Greece, working at the intersection of lens-based media and psychological inquiry. Holding an MA in Photography: Research and Methodology and a BSc in Psychology, she develops long-term, research-driven projects that explore perception, consciousness, and liminal states. She approaches the image as a site of observation where internal experience and external reality intersect without resolving into a single narrative. Through repetition and deliberate gaps, she creates non-linear structures that reflect the instability of consciousness, memory, trauma, and subjective time, creating affective spaces where individual and collective narratives cross.
You see more here: www.danaepanagiotidi.com and @danae.pan on Instagram
