Dream in Man

Something begins to reach out to Ashley Temba—through images, fragments, memories. Visions emerge like voices from another time. As the artist records them, a search takes shape: for balance, for closeness, for a way to stop losing himself.

*Dream in Man* explores the silent connection between Ashley Temba and his late grandfather. From shared memories, unsent letters, and stories told by relatives, a dialogue emerges about absence, inheritance, and the traces a life leaves behind in the body. Two people—two artists—the same path—separated by death and what remained unsaid.

Between dance and language, an intimate performative landscape unfolds, composed of choreography, improvisation, and spoken fragments of private writings. Emotional states appear not as a narrative, but as movement: trembling, resistance, longing, exhaustion.

The work explores how art can become a space where forgiveness and healing remain possible—and whether self-love sometimes begins only where memory comes alive again.