“Some we know to be dead even though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through all the forms of life; other are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six» Virginia Woolf, Orlando, 1928

They Dream In My Bones is an installation-fiction relating the story of Roderick Norman, a researcher in “onirogenetics,” a science he himself founded, and that serves to extract the dreams from an unknown skeleton. Immersed in the mental space of R. Norman, reconstituted in the form of a textile installation comprising drawings and paintings, spectators are invited to view an immersive film in stereoscopic 360°. Conceived as a minimalist scientific fable in black and white, this VR film combining computer images and traditional film images transports us onto virtual veils to continue the metamorphosis of a skeleton at the limits of the human and of genders.

Dreams.

They dream in my bones. They dream in your bones. They dream in our bones. There are visions, engraved in me, fossilized, petrified. They never stop dreaming. Death can’t stop the visions.

How many dreams are there in me? How many genders are there in me? I used to be a man and a woman, before being born. I used to be a pikaïa, a bactery. So, how many species are there in me?