The Artist’s Dream

In the quiet of his recent residency at Artlab_LCG, Lucas Goubert has woven a tapestry of dream and consciousness—an odyssey into the depths of the soul. His series, “The Artist’s Dream,” emerges as a luminous bridge between the waking world and the mysterious realm of the subconscious, where anthropomorphic mystical creatures, poetry, and words intertwine with passion, love, and rage, like strands of an ancient spell.

In such a short time, Lucas Goubert’s vibrant creativity produced a deeply conceptualized exhibition—an immersive experience of video, installation, and performance—where reality dissolves into myth and dreams. It is a testament to resilience, instinct, and the endless search for meaning amid chaos.

The genesis of this project began with a simple yet profound act: painting the mattress displayed in the artist’s room—one of the actual mattresses used by previous residents, where countless artist’s dreams had once taken shape. That mattress, a silent witness to hopes, restless nights, and whispered visions, became the starting point for Lucas’s exploration into the collective dreamscape. In Goubert’s vision, a mattress is a portal to the multifaceted universe of the human mind—an opening to some parallel dimension where subconscious, dream, and magic dance together in an infinite ball.

Following the mattress, Lucas moved on to create large-format works on paper, which serve as vivid, dynamic canvases. In Lucas Goubert’s practice, poetry and writing come first; the visual elements always derive from his words. The words are embedded within the compositions, vibrantly weaving through the anthropomorphized shadow lines, chaotic energy, rough brush strokes—almost brutal in their intensity—and nervously sketched forms that seem to pulse with urgent life. The words breathe and scream across the paper, infusing the work with raw emotion and visceral energy.

From the start of his artistic journey—initially marked by spontaneous sketches inspired by poets like Mistral, Lorca, and Whitman—Lucas’s art has blossomed into a language full of archetypal figures—mystics, surreal creatures, and mythic beings—living passionately in their worlds, unfiltered and authentic. Using a palette of collage, oils, inks, and waxed crayons, he conjures scenes pulsating with Latin American magic realism, Jungian archetypes, Lovecraftian shadows, punk’s untamed spirit, Basquiatian naivety, and Chopinian Romanticism.

The body holds a vital place in Lucas Goubert’s artistic practice and personal journey. His father’s long illness, a chronic aneurysm, caused his body to endure recurring explosions and crises over several years, culminating in the fatal rupture of his chest. This trauma profoundly shaped Lucas’s understanding of the body’s fragility and resilience. The sensations of explosion—both physical and emotional—became a bridge between the subconscious and the conscious. Initially perceived as negative, these body feelings were influenced also by childhood struggles with bullying, to be rediscovered as sources of joy and vitality through reconnecting with physical pleasures in adulthood. Working with these raw energies allows him to transform trauma and emotion into poetic images that pulse with life, full of vitality and honesty.

“The Artist’s Dream” is more than a series of images; it is a poetic exploration of the dream within, an investigative quest for the universe that stirs within us all. His characters embody the pulse of the collective unconscious, living intensely within their worlds—boldly, passionately, and with rage—calling out with raw urgency. Behind each image lies a universe of mystical symbols and passionate screams, demanding to be heard.

As this residency concludes, Lucas Goubert’s art leaves us suspended between worlds—reminding us that within the dream lies the seed of awakening, and that through art and poetry, we can connect to the infinite cosmos.