ART BASEL IN BASEL 2025

For Unlimited—Art Basel’s sector for large-scale installations, curated by Giovanni Carmine—GRAY and Galerie Lelong present Jaume Plensa’s Forgotten Dreams (2020), a sculptural installation of twenty-one cast aluminium doors inscribed with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Drafted in 1948 by representatives from every region of the world, the UDHR sought to enshrine a code of fundamental human rights.

Envisioned for the first time ever as an immersive, open-ended passage, Forgotten Dreams draws viewers to contemplate the commitment necessary for humanity to fulfil the declaration’s mission. Conceived for Unlimited with a wall of eleven doors and a facing wall of ten with one spot left bare, Plensa posits that no matter how troubled the past, nor how painful the present, the future is yet to be written.