THE DREAMERS GALLERY is a contemporary art and publishing space in Presidio, Texas. Housed in an 8,000-square-foot historic adobe building, the gallery presents exhibitions by international artists whose work engages questions of place, memory, and perception.
Exhibitions, accompanying objects, and art books are conceived together as a single experience. Books and printed matter are integrated throughout the space, reflecting a long relationship to publishing and an interest in sustained attention. Art is approached not as information to be consumed, but as an experience that unfolds over time and resists immediacy.
Presidio and West Texas were chosen deliberately. The Dreamers Gallery operates at a distance from established cultural centers, where landscape, slowness, and proximity to the desert shape how work is encountered and understood. This distance is not a constraint, but a condition that allows for a different mode of engagement – one less defined by circulation and speed, and more by duration and presence.
In this context, viewing becomes an act of reflection informed by time and place, and the gallery functions not only as a site of presentation, but as a framework for considering how and where contemporary art can hold meaning today.
For a broader sense of how the gallery fits into its surroundings, see A Day in Presidio.
FOUNDER
Adèle Jancovici (b. Paris, France) is a prize-winning publisher, curator, and writer. She is the founder of the New York–based art publishing company Le Livre Art Publishing (est. 2011), and produces books and editions for museums, private foundations, and artists internationally.
Her publishing work has involved collaborations with institutions, galleries, and cultural platforms such as Marc Jacobs’ Bookmarc, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, and curators affiliated with the Centre Pompidou and Europalia Romania. She has published monographs and archival works by artists such as Julio Le Parc, Xavier Veilhan, and Michel Journiac, as well as the previously unpublished correspondence between Constantin Brancusi and Marcel Duchamp.
As a curator, Jancovici has developed exhibitions across Europe, the United States, and Asia, often working across sound, image, and spatial experience. Her exhibitions have featured artists including Maripol, Paolo Canevari, Sarah Moon, and John Baldessari.
In 2020, she acquired the historic Herrera Building in Presidio, Texas – a large scale adobe structure now home to The Dreamers Gallery, envisioned as a contemporary art sanctuary rooted in the West Texas desert.
