Sleepwalker

Uncool Gallery presents Sleepwalker, a solo exhibition by photographer Zoe Vassiliou, opening in Brooklyn, NY, on November 30, 2026. Developed over several years, Sleepwalker moves through the unstable territory between waking life and dream. Vassiliou photographs figures after twilight, inside bedrooms, along roadsides, and within abandoned or deteriorating spaces. Light becomes part of the psychological structure of each image. Streetlamps, moonlight, interior lamps, and sudden flashes transform familiar environments into places charged with uncertainty. The photographs begin with Vassiliou’s interest in the strange logic of dreams. Childhood memories of imagining dreams as movies projected behind closed eyelids developed into a photographic language where reality can feel briefly altered. Figures appear suspended inside their surroundings. A landscape may seem watchful. An ordinary room can carry the pressure of something unseen. Across Sleepwalker, Vassiliou uses photography to give form to emotions that surface most strongly at night. The work draws on fear and fascination, allowing difficult states of mind to become images that can be looked at directly. The exhibition includes photographs made between 2022 and 2026, including Sleepwalker, Blue Hour, Curtain Call, Hitchhiker, Where the Current Sleeps, Cornfield Cathedral, and The Uninvited. The works are presented as archival pigment prints in two scales. Selected works will also be available through Uncool Gallery on Artsy. Sleepwalker was selected as Uncool Gallery’s Fall 2026 Solo Show through the Gallery’s quarterly Solo Show Open Call. The Fall 2026 edition received 170 applications. Zoe Vassiliou was selected for the physical solo exhibition, with nine additional artists forming the Fall 2026 Cohort.