Afrofuturism, critical fabulation, and historical research intertwine within Camille Turner’s work to destabilize colonial narratives and construct new possibilities for existence. In DreamSpace (2025), that she premiers at the 36th Bienal, the artist proposes an immersive sound installation that takes the audience into a meditative and fabulatory state. The work is anchored in the Afronautic methodology developed by Turner, which proposes walking, feeling, imagining, and responding to the traces of history. The work activates a space where ancestral memory is not only evoked but also experienced as a pulsation and flow through bodies and times.

Meditation is not limited to introspection, but suggests a perceptual shift: a channel that expands presence and transforms relationships with time and space. The act of dreaming, understood here as matter, alters what seemed stable and modifies the very breathing of the world. The installation operates like a portal, guiding participants through an experience in which the boundaries between past, present, and future are continually resized. It says to us: “Remember the future.” The guiding voice and a sound take the listener on a journey that is no less abstract than the creation of Blackness. Fabulation here is not just narrative, but vibration and displacement. Listening becomes a flexible affair, a force field where memories are created, the body is reorganized, and time folds into itself.

DreamSpace invites us to an inverted movement: it is from the present that a transmission is emitted. In this work, we inhabit a world in which oppression has been overcome and the dream of liberation has become real – a world shaped by dreamers who are themselves projections of dreams. Thus, we are called to transmit this collective dream to those still struggling in the past and to communicate to the dreamers of the future that liberation is not only possible, but imminent. Dreaming is the way.

Far from being an escape, refuge manifests itself as a technology of permanence, a way of preserving and prolonging existences that would otherwise be erased. In DreamSpace, the sound composition not only conducts but reshapes the relationship with the present, creating cracks through which the impossible can insinuate itself. Like a call that reverberates beyond time, the work reminds us that our imagination is not just an engine for transforming reality, but a field where futures are shaped, inscribed, and continually cultivated.