"If there's something big, big that you want to reach for, you begin by dreaming." —Ivonne and Ivette
"The discomfort in Sleepworld Volume 1 is that of being oneself. The videos included here look at who we are and what we imagine we are. They are experiments in appearances, about the use of artifice to improve life or hide it. It is a reflection on moral displacement, hypocrisy, self-contained dreams, self-loathing, self-destruction in order to repeatedly kill our dreams.
Formally, this is an exercise in automaticism. My camera reveals reality developing over real time. Seven of the nine videos included in this series were completed in less than a month as chance operations. They are pure documents that use life as a laboratory. In addition, I created a self-imposed assignment to complete things the same night that I began."
- Ximena Cuevas, 1999
