Sun Chun’s artistic practice spans multiple media, constructing a psychic landscape that floats between memory and illusion through a structure of fragmented narratives and layered metaphors. DREAM ORACLE is her first solo exhibition in Mainland of China, composed of several installations and a single-channel AI-generated film work.
The project begins with a deeply embedded childhood memory: the joyful summers she spent in the residential community of the Zhejiang Sanshi Cement Factory, where her aunt’s family once lived. More than just housing, it was a self-contained utopia—complete with schools, clinics, shops, parks, a swimming pool, and even a children’s playground—offering everything needed for a happy and fulfilling life. As China’s state-owned enterprises restructured, this once-thriving community gradually fell into neglect, becoming a faded fragment of a collective past. It is within these quiet ruins that the dream begins—spiraling into a meditation on “existence” and “marginality.”
The exhibition’s title is drawn from the ancient Chinese fantasy novel Flowers in the Mirror, in which the “Dream Oracle” is a Taoist sanctuary that reflects the realm of dreams. Here, it is reimagined as an allegorical mode of seeing—a re-narration of the subconscious, social structure, and the image-archives of memory.
The exhibition unfolds in three chapters:
Chapter I
In Minor Phrases, the Dream Begins
Chapter II
Born of Water, Bound by Moonlight
Chapter III
Echoes of the First Act