The title of this set of diptychs by Alexandre Conefrey (Eyes I dare not meet in dreams) refers to a poem by T.S. Eliot (The Hollow Men). As with many of Conefrey's other works, the title is of vital importance because, although it does not offer a literal description, it is a key element in the viewer's interpretation, reading, and (re)construction of the work. Using here, as in other works from 2004, the photographic process known as cibachrome (reproduction of slides on photographic paper), which allows the production of a blurred figurative effect.

In these images we are confronted with bust portraits in which the artist places side by side, in the first set, the image of a boy and that of a man, both wearing formal attire composed of jacket, shirt and tie. A diptych that may suggest different past times in the life of the same person, or perhaps they are different people who may have had some family or historical connection. The second set, also composed of two images, reveals a child in a frontal position and another more undefined figure in profile. Bearing T.S. Eliot's poem in mind, we are suggested to think of semi ghostly characters from "death's dream realm”. The images are placed side by side in a static permanence, impossible to bind or designate except through the active role of the observer, narrator or (re)constructor of narratives, who can either see them from the outside or see themselves in them.