Dreams Series Exhibition

Yijia (Kira) Cao

Dreams Series is a capstone exhibition that explores the relationship between dreams, childhood memory, nostalgia, and the fear of growing older. Through photography, video, sound, scent, text, and installation, the project creates an immersive space that moves between comfort and unease, reflecting the way memory can feel both beautiful and unsettling. The exhibition invites viewers to step into a world shaped by fragments of childhood, shifting emotions, and uncertain futures. Viewers will reflect on their own lives and childhood memories through this exhibition.

Media

ABOUT THE DESIGNER

A person with dark hair, wearing a white and black patterned shirt, holds a black Canon DSLR camera with an 18-135mm lens up to their eyes, obscuring most of their face as they look through the viewfinder. The background features softly blurred blue and white artworks hanging, suggesting an art studio or gallery.

Yijia (Kira) Cao

I am a multidisciplinary creative whose practice is shaped by an interest in liminal spaces, dreams, memory, and emotional storytelling. I am drawn to moments and spaces that feel suspended between opposites, where familiarity meets strangeness and comfort exists alongside unease. Much of my work reflects on the way childhood experiences and personal memories continue to affect people in adulthood, especially during times of uncertainty or change.

Through visual and sensory methods, I create work that feels not only immersive and reflective but also very emotionally charged. I am interested in how atmosphere can hold feeling, and how aspects of images, objects, sound, and space can come together to communicate what is difficult to explain in one form alone. Rather than presenting memory as something fixed, I approach it as something versatile, shifting, and deeply tied to emotion. My goal is to create experiences that invite others to pause and reconnect with the traces of memory that linger within them.

Return to Exhibition Designers

Scroll to Top