Anna Hallin and Olga Bergmann

Berghall, the collaborative duo of Icelandic artist Olga Bergmann and Swedish-born, Reykjavík-based Anna Hallin, create interdisciplinary works that blend sculpture, installation, video, and drawing with speculative science and fictional archaeology. Samdreymi (Social Dreaming) unfolds through a sequence of dreamlike scenes that merge video footage, photography, and animation into a fluid journey where one vision dissolves into the next. Fragments of text appear on screen like messages from the subconscious, guiding the viewer through shifting thresholds between human and animal, individual and collective, place and placelessness. The work imagines a dream-world sustained by the symbiosis of different life forms, echoing Ursula K. Le Guin’s reflections on social dreaming: that dreams can free us from the confines of the self, reveal what we fear or wish to believe, and at times disclose what we did not yet know.