Iman Wu

Dream Commune explores the rupture between individual identity and collective memory following the collapse of socialist grand narratives. As a young artist from a socialist country, Iman is sensitive to the tension between the ‘collective’ and the ‘self’, often experiencing ‘pre-nostalgia’ – imagining how the future might long for this moment. Using a surreal visual language, the work envisions a post-socialist utopia where ideology dissolves and individuals drift amid pleasure and illusion. Photography, AI imagery, experimental video and sound interweave to show how dream-like structures still shape the hidden core of reality.