Dmitry Bulin / We Dream This

About the exhibition

DMITRY BULIN

We Dream This

Curators: Anna Zaitseva, Maria Lavrova

As part of the biennale Fashion and Style in Photography – 2025, the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow presents the exhibition ‘We Dream This’ by the contemporary photographer Dmitry Bulin. In 2022 MAMM hosted the first solo exhibition project by Bulin, who won the main prize of the Still Art Foundation grant programme in the field of fashion photography. This new exhibition showcases images where he enters into a fascinating dialogue with surrealism, demonstrating the development of his artistic language.

Dmitry Bulin’s creative method is based on constant interaction with works of world culture and art, their new and up-to-date interpretation. The project ‘We Dream This’, created for The Blueprint in 2024 as part of a special issue dedicated to the centenary of surrealism (creative idea: Alexander Perepelkin, creative director and stylist: Igor Andreev), is in homage to the highly significant movement that established a new mode of artistic thinking. 

In 1924 the French poet and ideologist of surrealism André Breton published a manifesto in which he rejected rationalism and practical utility, calling for creative inspiration in our own subconscious, fantasies and dreams. Surrealism was greatly influenced by psychoanalysis, which was actively evolving at that time, primarily the ideas of Sigmund Freud outlined in ‘The Interpretation of Dreams’, as well as Carl Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious. According to the latter, universal images or archetypes are embedded in the psyche of every human being and made manifest in myths, fairy tales, art, religion, etc.

In his pictures Bulin offers original interpretations of the iconic images of surrealism presented in the works of classic artists Salvador Dali (‘The Elephants’), René Magritte (‘L’Embellie’), Giorgio de Chirico (‘Song of Love’), and Man Ray (‘Kiki de Montparnasse’).