On view March 3 - 24 The Interpretation of Dreams (German: Die Traumdeutung) is an 1899 book by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, in which the author introduces his theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation. From Die Traumdeutung by Sigmund Freud "A father had been watching beside his child’s sick-bed for days and nights on end. After the child had died, he went into the next room to lie down, but left the door open so that he could see from his bedroom into the room in which his child’s body was laid out, with tall candles standing round it. An old man had been engaged to keep watch over it, and sat beside the body murmuring prayers. After a few hours’ sleep, the father had a dream that his child was standing beside his bed, caught him by the arm and whispered to him reproachfully: ‘Father, don’t you see I’m burning?’ He woke up, noticed a bright glare of light from the next room, hurried into it and found that the old watchman had dropped off to sleep and that the wrappings and one of the arms of his beloved child’s dead body had been burned by a lighted candle that had fallen on them. The dead child behaved in the dream like a living one: he himself warned his father, came to his bed, and caught him by the arm, just as he had probably done on the occasion from the memory of which the first part of the child’s words in the dream were derived. For the sake of the fulfilment of this wish the father prolonged his sleep by one moment. The dream was preferred to a waking reflection because it was able to show the child as once more alive. If the father had woken up first and then made the inference that led him to go into the next room, he would, as it were, have shortened his child’s life by that moment of time." Jacques Lacan in response to Die Traumdeutung "Is there not more reality in this message than in the noise by which the father also identifies the strange reality of what is happening in the room next door. Is not the missed reality that caused the death of the child expressed in these words? Freud himself does not tell us that we must recognize in this sentence what perpetuates for the father those words forever separated from the dead child that were said to him, perhaps, Freud supposes, because of the fever—but who knows, perhaps these words perpetuate the remorse felt by the father that the man he has put at his son’s bedside to watch over him may not be up to his task: die Besorgnis dass dergreise Wnachter seiner Aufgabe nichtgewachsen sein dürfte, he may not be up to his job, in fact, he has gone to sleep." Celeste Dupuy-Spencer (b. 1979 New York, NY) received her BFA from Bard College, Annadale-on- Hudson, NY in 2007. Her recent solo exhibitions include Wild and Blue at Marlborough Contemporary, New York (2017), And a Wheel on the Track at MIER GALLERY, Los Angeles (2016) and (mostly) works on paper at Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles (2015). Her group exhibitions include Summerfest 2017 at Max Hetzler, Berlin (2017), Human Condition at Los Angeles Metropolitan Medical Center, Los Angeles (2016); Tomorrow Never Happens, The Samek Art Museum at Bucknell University, PA (2016); Frida Smoked at Invisible Exports, New York (2016); In Plain Sight, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York (2012). She had solo exhibition at Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin, (2020). She lives and works in Los Angeles.