The degree of a material’s non-transparency is denoted by the term ‘opacity’. In a figurative sense, opacity describes the difficulty of understanding or seeing through something. The exhibition Deep Dream brings together five artists who use photography to direct our gaze to areas that lie outside our perception or imagination. Marta Djourina examines phenomena of light and creates images in the darkroom that make invisible processes visible. In her large-scale photograms, Sara-Lena Maierhofer brings extinct species back to life, arranging dinosaurs against a post-apocalyptic backdrop. In his series Double Exposures, Lukas Hoffmann records imperceptible movements in urban space through temporal and spatial shifts. The grid and net structures in Berit Schneidereit’s photographs obscure our view, showing us how media images separate us from the world. Lucia Sotnikova uses subtle manipulation and stereotypical images from pop culture to question social norms; in her works, bodies and projections merge into hybrid image worlds.