Diego González Gómez
What do flowers dream of?
2025

Blown glass, TFT display, inflatable toy dog, walnut wood, silicone.

Dimensions: 50x50x70cm
Dreams are a space for rehearsal. Within them, the body withdraws and consciousness explores impossible territories — death, loss, euphoria, unrestrained desire. They are a primitive technology of simulation, a territory where the self rehearses its own vulnerability without breaking apart. To dream is a way of approaching what, in waking life, would be unbearable — an act of imagination that allows us to survive ourselves.
The flowers in this series seem to share that same impulse. They are hybrid organisms — made of glass, wood, and light — that dream in order to rehearse the human, just as we dream to rehearse what is possible. Inside each flower, a small screen reveals images that might belong to their vegetal unconscious or to a human longing projected onto them. To dream is not to escape the world, but to recognize the most fragile and permeable part of existence.
Through them, these synthetic creatures confront their own limits — their inability to feel, their desire to do so — and in that gesture they mirror our own human condition: the longing to feel through the artificial. In a world where everything tends to harden, to dream is to let something tremble without breaking. In their luminous stillness, the flowers seem to guard that tremor: a shared memory between the living and the manufactured, a suspended state where vulnerability remains beautiful.