Artist Sondra Perry’s audiovisual installation, Lineage for a Phantom Zone, centres around an imagined dream that Perry wishes she could have had. The work explores the erasure of Black history in the American South, and the way in which dreams relate to personal history and heritage.

Upon entering the gallery space, the audience can smell the scent of oranges, which has a poignant meaning, tied to a family myth: Perry was told that she would know when her grandmother has passed because she will smell oranges.

Fieldwork Facility designed a free book to accompany the exhibition. The book was treated as a dream sequence, with all the essays, stories and conversations affected by different dream phenomena. A single letter was altered or redesigned in each of the seven texts in the book, and when put together, all of the altered letters from the seven texts spell out ‘oranges’.

Credits:
Sondra Perry: Lineage for a Phantom Zone
Category: Editorial
Entrant: Fieldwork Facility
Client: Sondra Perry & Muse, the Rolls-Royce Art Programme
Design: Fieldwork Facility
Creative Director: Robin Howie
Design: Robin Howie
Editorial: A Vibe Called Tech
Editors: Lewis Gilbert, Charlene Prempeh
Dream Commission Producer: Chloe Hodge
Photography: Ed Park