GROUP EXHIBITION

French poet André Breton first wrote about Surrealism in 1924, conceiving it as an artistic and political movement where artists, inspired by Freudian psychoanalytic theories, sought to release the imaginative capacity of the unconscious. By rejecting rational perceptions of the world through art and literature, artists embraced unlikely realities often reserved for dreams. By the time Breton visited Mexico in 1938, he recognised that the movement transcended European borders, controversially declaring Mexico ‘the utmost surrealist place par excellence [...] Never before have I felt how reality so splendidly fulfills the promises of dreams.’ Despite this oversimplification and often misrepresentation of art from Mexico as inherently surreal, the reverberations of the movement continue to influence the art produced today.