Dream Moons — Domestic Space and Dream Logic in a First-Person Sequence
Dream Moons is a photobook by Yurian Quintanas Nobel, published by Void Photo in 2020. It combines photography and text in a first-person sequence constructed entirely within the artist's house, treating domestic space not as backdrop but as the work's primary constraint and subject.
The formal rule is strict: every photograph was made inside the house. That limitation gives the book its structure and its pressure. Rooms, corridors, objects, and the people within them are observed with a precision that gradually unsettles familiarity. What begins as documentation of ordinary surroundings moves toward a register that is harder to fix — psychological, interior, shaped by memory and projection rather than description.
The photography-and-text format reinforces this instability. Neither element simply illustrates the other. Together they produce a sequence in which the visible and the named do not fully align, and the house becomes something closer to a field of inner tension than a physical address. The project originated in 2015, well before domestic confinement became a widely shared experience, and that timing gives the work a retrospective dimension without reducing it to topical commentary.
Within the broader field of contemporary Photobooks, Dream Moons occupies a specific position: it is an artist book that operates through accumulation and displacement rather than narrative arc or documentary sequence. The house is not explained. It is shown, named, and then quietly made strange.
Reception
- Selected for the Demons exhibition at Charta Festival, Rome, 2021
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Photo-Eye – Best Photobook of 2021: Josef Chladek
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Photobookstore Magazine – Best Photobooks of 2021: Clint Woodside
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Deadbeat Club – Best Photobooks of 2021: Martin Amis
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Photobookstore Magazine – Best Photobooks of 2021: Martin Amis
Production Credits
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Photography: Yurian Quintanas Nobel
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Text: Yurian Quintanas Nobel
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Design: João Linneu
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Edit: Myrto Steirou
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Printing & Binding: MAS Matbaa
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Font: ITC Franklin Gothic by Monotype
About the Artist
Yurian Quintanas Nobel was born in Amsterdam in 1983 and grew up in Catalonia. His photographic practice centres on people, natural environments, and his own immediate surroundings. His work consistently moves along the threshold between reality and fiction, using photography to approach what is intangible, hidden, or only partly visible.
In Dream Moons, Nobel turns familiar domestic space into an unstable visual field shaped by memory, projection, and inner tension — rather than documenting the house in descriptive terms. Published by Void in 2020, the book is his fourth publication and gained wider visibility through exhibition and year-end photobook contexts.
