Surrealism first and always.
4 September 2024 – 13 January 2025
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
It is one of the most exciting exhibitions of the season, which celebrates the movement’s centenary. The exhibition spans four decades, from 1924 to the late 1960’s. The exhibition envelopes you in a labyrinth layout as you meander through. Surrealism started as a literary movement founded by poets including Guillaume Apollinaire and André Breton, among others. André Breton worked at a neuropsychiatric center in 1916 and discovered methods of dream analysis, and later, the Surrealists explored dream imagery to explore the unconscious. The exhibition’s second section is dedicated to the Trajectory of the Dream. However, there are 13 sections of the labyrinth, each worth exploring slowly.
“I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream, and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.” (A. Breton)
The original Manifesto of Surrealism, published in 1924, was loaned to the exhibition from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. The exhibition is vital as it gives voice to many female Surrealists not necessarily associated with the movement, including Dora Mara, Dorothea Tanning, Suzanne Van Damme, and Rita Kern-Larsen. We know, but we don’t know like Dalí.
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