Rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, and land exhausted by regimes of extraction, monoculture, and conflict have accelerated processes of soil desertification. Once framed as a distant threat, land degradation now advances across territories in Europe, exposing the limits of responses that often remain confined to cycles of recognition without repair. This is the fractured world we inherit – an estrangement from the living and a loss of our capacity to dream: not only to generate worlds in sleep, but to imagine other ways of relating that could heal and regenerate.

Opening programme: 17 April 2026, 18:00 – 18:30 – Exhibition tour with curator Adelina Luft, artists Yasmeen Al-Qaisi, Dan Vezentan, Daniel Godinez Nivon
Venue: tranzit.sk, Beskydská 12, Bratislava
Opening hours: Tuesday – Friday: 14:30 – 18:30.

»I Dream of Rain« proposes dreaming as both gesture and method – as a relational and speculative practice capable of materializing new relations with the living world. The works in the exhibition explore water not only as a resource but also as a carrier of memory, ritual, and situated forms of knowledge. Rain appears both as a vital ecological matter and as a cultural and symbolic force associated with regeneration and continuity.

Through installations, images, sound, and architectural structures, the artists trace a dense ecology of relations linking infrastructures, ecological processes, and embodied ways of knowing. Emerging from diverse geographies, the works construct an environment where perception, memory, and imagination remain in continuous circulation, and where collective dreaming becomes a means to rethink how we inhabit and sustain the living world.

Areej Ashhab, Celestína Minichová, CENTRALA, Daniel Godínez Nivón, Dan Vezentan, Yasmeen Al-Qaisi
Curated by: Adelina Luft

Adelina Luft is a Bucharest-based curator. From 2014 to 2021, she was active in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, where she developed a practice guided by decolonial thought and process-driven, collaborative, and interdisciplinary forms of working. Since living in Bucharest, she has curated various projects and exhibitions exploring collective practices of relating to land-as-soil. She is part of tranzit.ro/Bucharest, active at The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life. In 2025 co-founded the Amaranth Seed Kollective (ASK) together with artists, curators, and architects.

Header image: Dan Vezentan, The Rain Collector, 2025, Installation with wooden scale model, photographic images, and video of the site-specific work