Dreams Are a Language Made of Images, 2025
Aluminium composite material, stainless steel, aluminium and LED lighting3.75 x 19.4 x 15.7m
Dreams Are a Language Made of Images, is a large-scale text installation by Zineb Sedira, a London-based Franco Algerian artist who is known for exploring themes of identity, gender, and family history. Using film, photography, installation and performance, Sedira examines personal stories in relation to broader geopolitical narratives.
It was created by the artist specifically for this site by the River Lea at 3 Mills Studios, a leading centre for film and TV production. The text is based on a quote from the Italian filmmaker, Federico Fellini, who was most famous for his 1960s films, including La Dolce Vita. The work encourages reflection about the interrelationship between dreams and cinema, recurring themes in Sedira’s practice, here with the added element of the river. As the artist notes: ‘Rivers are forever changing and moving. Like dreams they are not fixed. Rivers are places of mobility, routes to other countries, other worlds, other dreams’.
Dreams Are a Language Made of Images, is The Line’s fourth iteration of Longitudinal Dialogues, a programme that takes its location on the Greenwich Meridian as a starting point for global cultural exchange. The Meridian, on which both the UK and Algeria are located, runs only a few hundred metres to the east of this installation.
Courtesy of the artist and Goodman Gallery, London
Generously supported by Zineb Sedira Commission Circle: Maria Sukkar, and those who wish to remain anonymous.
