Coinciding with Milan Design Week and Salone del Mobile 2024, the expansive halls of Milano Centrale railway station were transformed into the backdrop for An Invitation to Dream, presented by Moncler. A celebration of dream states as a passage to creativity, curated by Jefferson Hack, the large-scale public exhibition committed 12 preeminent creatives to photographic portraiture under Jack Davison’s lens, exploring their influence through inspiration accessed via the subconscious.

As the project evolves into the digital space, South African architect Sumayya Vally becomes the third Dreamer to expand her story for Moncler in the final film from the accompanying series, directed by Stella Scott. Captured between her studio and the streets of Whitechapel, an open top bus ride journeys into her daydreams, musing on the London locations that informed her 2021 Serpentine Pavilion, and which continue to drive her architectural research as the youngest artist to receive the prestigious commission.

Connecting the social contexts and stimuli that surround her to ideas that take form in her mind, Vally reveals the sense of truth that underscores her practice, developing the raw beauty and physical immediacy of her work as an architect. Considering the potential of dreams to occupy an unlikely political space, she lets observations made around the city evolve through her imagination, allowing her dreams to entertain new worlds that have yet to be realized.