Utopian dreams emerge in consciousness like flashes of a world where life flows without the fractures imposed by human voracity. They are mirages of a lost balance, visions of a time when water, air, and earth were not commodities but sacred presences with which we conversed. Is utopia an unattainable destination or the echo of an ancestral memory calling us? Perhaps, in the very act of imagining these untouched landscapes, of dreaming them with the intensity of those who long for the impossible, the spark of their realization is ignited. Because every utopia, before it came to be, was first the dream of someone who dared to believe. 

Tuesday to Friday presents the evolution of a dream—a sweet, pleasant, and natural dream. A dream of peace. A reunion with oneself amidst this nephritic chaos of overwhelming stimuli, born from overexposure to information, detached from nature and calm. This group exhibition, titled Stay with Me, showcases the work of three artists—women from different backgrounds and cultures who, without prior agreement, have found a shared space. They present dreamlike planes that invite the audience to take a deep breath and exhale slowly. It is a pause, an act of contemplation. It is a oneiric utopia born from the effort of looking up from our screens and gazing at the horizon. To once again smell the scent of wet earth.

The works in Stay with Me compose a dream in three states: through the works of Anaja Hvastija Gaia (Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1995), Gema Quiles (Vila-real, Spain, 1994), and Katia Lifshin (UKherson, Ucrania, 1993), we traverse different phases of rest—moments in which the mind creates landscapes and characters that accompany us in the drift of the subconscious. These are states that unfold after relaxation, dreams in the REM phase: 

• Phase I: Drowsiness—the threshold between wakefulness and sleep, represented in the works of Katia Lifshin. Her paintings place us in that moment of transition, where light merges with shadow and bodies float in an undefined atmosphere. It is the instant when reality begins to blur, as if a veil of water gently leads us into another world. The fluid transition between the real and the dreamlike is a central element in her work, where subjects seem to suspend themselves in a weightless sensation, as if they are about to cross an invisible threshold. 

• Phase II: Light Sleep—a stage of fragile connections and flashes of memory, which Anaja Hvastija Gaia captures in her pieces through ethereal materials and monochromatic compositions. Here, we find ourselves entering this parallel world through the portal provided by Katia. A parallel world where day and night coexist in just two interacting colors. A utopian parallel world where it can be day or night simply by imagining it. This is an intermediate threshold where the boundaries of time and space dissolve, generating a terrain of infinite possibilities. 

• Phases III & IV: Deep Sleep and Delta—where matter becomes tangible and sensations intensify. Gema Quiles introduces us to a space where nature becomes corporeal, almost palpable. Her dense textures and organic landscapes immerse us in an environment that evokes total immersion in the dream world. Here, the dream is no longer just a fleeting image but a space we can inhabit. The artist presents us with a universe where the connection to the environment is visceral, where the earth appears as a living organism that envelops and transforms us.

• REM Phase: Lucid Dreaming—the moment when everything becomes clear and the impossible materializes. In this space, the characters and landscapes that have accompanied us throughout these paintings linger like shadows. This final phase is the convergence of all previous ones—the point where the dream takes on a life of its own and fully envelops us. It is also the meeting point between the three artists and the audience: a shared experience that imprints itself on our retina, resonating in our memory like an echo of lost paradises. 

Stay with Me is a plea, an invitation to remain in that dreamlike state where utopia is still possible. It asks us not to wake up completely, to stay in that in-between space where dreams have the possibility of materializing. The exhibition immerses us in that transition between wakefulness and sleep—a territory where time slows down and perception expands. In a world where urgency and productivity have shrunk our spaces for contemplation, this exhibition reminds us that dreaming is also an act of resistance.

As we navigate the works of Lifshin, Hvastija Gaia, and Quiles, we enter an expanded time where perception stretches. Stay with Me is that whisper urging us not to stray too far from our dreams, reminding us that, in some corner of our memory, utopia is still alive.