The London Museum - dedicated to the history of the aforementioned city, from time immemorial to the present - does not plan to acquire paintings, sculptures or video art, but ... dreams. Pandemic dreams, to be more precise, on which a lot of ink has been spilled this last year, analyzed to the point of paroxysm for their bizarre, twisted, unusually vivid qualities. Of so rare, they have been fertile material for artists to give them incarnation via collages; for psychologists like Deirdre Barrett of Harvard University to analyze stories of sleepers from forty countries in her book Pandemic Dreams; for websites to collect them in droves, noting certain constants: a lot of tsunami, too much earthquake, enough attacks by armies of cockroaches or worms, among other curiosities in full REM phase. Well, riding the dream wave, the London Museum will mount Guardians of Sleep in February, as they have baptized the brand-new project, for which it solicitously requests that Londoners come to share the most eccentric fantasies that have appeared just to rest their heads on the pillow . The testimonies, by the way, will become part of its permanent collection as "oral history of the pandemic", "record for posterity", in the words of the institution.

A materialization of the nocturnal alterations of a pandemic.