From cave paintings to machine vision and mythic symbols to data-driven imaginaries, images have shaped how we perceive, imagine, and inhabit the world, orienting our collective sense of belonging and becoming. They generate possibilities, organise time, and mobilise affect—connecting past and future, the ecological and the ancestral, the technological and the spectral.

Across these thresholds lies a subtle realm where the visible and the unseen meet: the imaginal, a space of potentiality where desire and lived experience converge, perception shifts, time resets, and language forms at the edges of consciousness. Here, in what Henry Corbin called ‘the world of the soul’, images acquire visionary force, seen through the ‘eyes of the heart’.

Delving into the invisible frequencies of personal and planetary becoming, Contour Biennale 11 engages the visions, dreams, and projections that arise through life’s ongoing transformations: from gestation and birth to childhood and adolescence; from…