Pravdoliub Ivanov
Vehicles Dream

1998 / 2025

EB113

Color photos mounted on 5 platform wheels (each 13 x 14.5 cm)
in a wooden box (46 x 16.5 x 16.5 cm)

Edition of 20, signed and numbered

2.200 Euro

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Edition by Pravdoliub Ivanov. Five platform rolls are scattered across a gray surface. A color photograph of a sleeping person in the New York subway is mounted on each roll.
An elongated box made of light wood can be seen from above, with the lid leaning against it. Inside the box are five white cardboard boxes lined up next to each other, each containing a platform roller.

    Vehicles Dream is the title of an installation consisting of 100 parts, that was created in New York in 1998. The city that ‘never sleeps’ was the setting for Ivanov’s photographs of people sleeping in subway cars, exhausted by the rhythm of the city that they themselves help to maintain. By mounting the images on small wheels scattered throughout the space, he allowed visitors to rearrange them. Moving around in this way, the portraits appear as a symbol of collective exhaustion. The social metaphor of these alienated and isolated figures, created more than 25 years ago, has gained unexpected political relevance today, visible in their silent paralysis and metaphysical helplessness.
    As part of a renewed focus on Vehicles Dream a new edition based on the original photographs has been published by Edition Block. The images of the sleeping figures are arranged in varying configurations in different sets of five wheels each.