Dream weaver

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Exhibition Dream weaver"How curious that we think the mind is in the head. The brain is in the head, but the brain isn't the mind." Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, Buddhist nunAt the heart of a Buddhist existence there is a need, and indeed an obligation, to question everything. The nontheist philosophies that motivate their adherents to spend hours, days, and sometimes years in silence and isolation, contemplating the architecture of thoughts and the ruminations of the mind, are almost scientific in their rigour. It is within this intangible cerebral space, woven from the threads of ideological doctrines and the very real environment of neurons, axons, and dendrites that artist Lada Dedić draws inspiration.In her latest exhibition, Self Portrait: Artist's Brain, Dedić couples her seemingly incongruous delight for