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a ‘SURREALISM BEYOND BORDERS [telephone receiver morphs into lobster. ‘train rues rom a epic, ‘These are images commonly associated with Surrealism, _revlvlonary cultural movement that poised he Unconscious and deans, over the familar and every Spared in ars around 1924, Surrealsm has inspired and Unite artists ever since This exibition traces is wide, Interconnected impact forthe fst ime. moves aay from a Ports cetre viewpoint o shed ight on Surreal slgicace around the wal om the 1920s fo the 1970s. incudes ast who embraced ths sprit of revel and those who shared Surealst ideas and valves but never ined a [rup. I estres some no ave nterecie wih Seas | vais points—wortingin paral associated losely | ‘ot Torashert period, or counted nb ther urea. Sureslem ian expansive, hiting erm, bua core, ‘san interogatin of poltial and socal systems, Convention and dominant eologies.inereny dynamic, thas raved and evolved rom place place and ime to time-and continues fod so fod. ts scope has nays been transnational spreading beyond national borders and ‘defying natonaltdesnitons, le as adressing spectc ‘od local contexts. na wold dened by eritoi corr Bethe consequential ideological constraint, expansionist fenfle, and expotativecolonaism—Surelsm as ‘deranged iberation and Served ai 35 olin the ‘Struggle politica, soci and personal reedoms. The tshton eects his indivalsm by avoiding nationals. Instead it highlights he centres where Sureaiss worked and gathered recognising shared practices and ideals even Sr fertllonis dna placenames changed around ther. ‘he artworks assembled here reveal some. but ceriinlynot alo he many routes nto and trough surelm. ‘artworks ar grouped in road areas of Surreal acy, resenting clecive interests nd networks shared by arts ‘cross epionsat pons of convergnce, ray and exchange They abo demonstrate nial halenges nesta ‘he pursuit of independence rom colonia, aswel 35 the “experience of eae and daplcement caused by nertionl “onc combiing brood hemes a deta points of focus across is section the exibition s nether singular innarrtve nor near in chronology Instead it calenges “onveional accounts hal ene Surenism ia Ex0pe Preventing an inerrelate network city ~one makes visbie many ves, tocations, and encoun inked Mvough the eedom and poss led by Surrealism, POETIC OBJECTS Making Steals obects can be a power way fo subvert, the everyday. As wll a challenging the radon lok of sculpture he works shown here loves! everyday ‘bjs wih what Parisian poet Andre Breton author of ‘he 1924 Manes surdalsme Manifesto of Surreal, Caled a 'erangement fhe senses" Oflen mage wih ‘conventional found or discarded materials suchas bones, Sells or leather scraps, these assemblages produced by rete connected a Surrestzm, sro ther mpc om the imaginative spark iby the ining of therwse unrelated ‘clement. For some, ths was ped by a pvase rom the ‘th-cntury Montevideo poe sore Ducasse he sesivied ome de Laviréamont ‘as beaut asthe chance encounter ‘ofa ening machine and an umbeela onan operating able’ Wogan Palen described Suess objects as tme-bomés of he consclence’ whl Slvedor Da cle her absolutly Ueless roma pracical and ational point of vew and Created whol forthe purpose of metering ina fetishisic try, th main tangible aly, eas ana fantasies of 2 dios choacen the materals and manuacie, ‘bjs such s those shown hereby Elen Agar and Joyce Mansou could produce unexpected responses. At her most ower poetic abecs escape ary single nerpretation THE UNCANNY IN THE EVERYDAY “The ony thing that fanatical atractsme wrote Jinch Sty in Pragun 1935, Searching or sureaity den in everyday bjs’ This rete Suess Felaionship wth the uncanny —a familar sgt made lAsconerting and strange bythe unexpected ‘Ares by psychi! Sigmund Freud's writing onthe ‘uncanny, Surrealist artists ave tapped in he ich vin of "Srangenes embedded in he ordinary word Pooler apy Drove particu well ute othe projet of ecosng ‘hese acidental exicidences, repetitions, and hazards of aly fe. Manuel Avarez Bravo and Dora Maar captures “urpeiing object and acenes encountered rough chance ‘thes induding Raoul Uboc and mb ung-sk manipulsted or staged images fo convey a sense ofthe uncanny. this potenti torevea hidden ruts. the eacanny ‘Ewelsuted satire and plc! subversion Tos end, phlograpic stele ol delamination have been employed to sbvert realty and present every scenes in sange 0 uncanny ways. TSS Seen in worts shun her by artists working in Belgrade, Bucharest Lisbon, Menlo Cty Nagoya, regu and ‘Sou guaranteeing an ongoing questioning of power andsocly,even nthe face of de eats. THE WORK OF OREAMS. surrelsmhas questioned —and sometimes attempted ‘erthon—the sronghlds of conscausness and coil Dreoms re cial to his end becuse, tke aluations ‘a delasons, many have beleved that they can reveal he ‘eokings of the unconscious min. nse works On Show hee ata jxtapostons or nighimarh subjects pte the sense ofthe ordinary made tai. sures) Sits in varous locations have seed hs potent er Ioeration. They seek te inspiration of dreams tobreak om Imitation imposed by societal customs, oro brig the sel. community, of work fart beyond the reach of wang realy, ‘Sigmund Freud's widely trardate book, The intepretaton ‘fbreams(190) provided nea vl stimulus or ‘many arts approaches 0 utes, Tvough ase ‘Tasso hie paens, Feud beleves ha reams txpored emotions otherwise epressed by sca anvertion. Max rs’ panting, or example draws ‘pon sch an experience aleve visor wich he {aw forms sppearin he proning of wood paneling REVOLUTION, FIRST ANO ALWAYS Revolutions a cenral idea for Surealsm, a it ofers ‘he possibly forrarsormaton ad ibeaion. Since iz coneption, Srresizm ha chalenged preeminent systems of power and privilege, dvsion and exclusion, andhas been emboldened by a rowing chorus of toices Alongside the coral and socal forces ‘hat determined its own erlang history over heat century Sues has presented a model fr pot engagement and aiation for arts, may of whom have Been acest lor subversive benavour. While Surealisshave expressed evolutionary ieas in occ and aisles, some, nung those aseebled here ave also generated collective achors. They have ‘ondemmes impels, acim, authoritarian, fase captalsm, greed mitarim and fer forms 2 powe and onal From suse civ igs and a war protests, tothe declonsation movement, Sualim as Served asa 0 But not ormul. As opal Sengho, uel poet, fest presen of Senegal and ‘etounde fhe Blac conscusness movement Negitude fxplaines in 1960: We accepted Sureaism as ameans, but nt as an end sa aly andnot a 2 master CONVERGENCE POINT: THE BUREAU DE RECHERCHES SURREALISTES, PARIS. (0n1 October 1928 the Pari Surreal opened the Bureau de recerhes sins urea of Srresis Research ‘The poet Antonin art, who functioned as its clr, {ale an ‘agency of communication Esteblshed = gathering place the Brea ames oes He ‘Members assembled an achive of mate relting 0 ‘he surest evolution They cole ream nave, document owas ics and chance ocutences, and prepared project such a ‘lossay ofthe marvellous. teas decotated a supe vistor—wih a plaster cs of 3 wormar's body heal rm he eling and Giro de Chios eRe de Tebe Te Dream of Taba on a Wal The Bureau served a range of public functions. These Included receiving vistors, relating colecive pamphlets 2nd group publations, papillon bute, responding fe press enquires and issuing the grou’ fst Ioural Lo éauiton srl Inti ay a8 pnt of convergence as much as a rssoads for ccuaton Newcomers intrest in uresism vse learn about Contribute and ere jin the movement. Members felded questions simuated by ther exchange of eas and tain! for publey Subscriber rom al pointer Adelaide, Bucharest, Prague or Re de Jnero—made Contac an shares the ow nes of Sure aces, 5 THE WORLD IN THE TIME OF THE SURREALISTS ‘The craig captioned te Monde aye des surdastes [the Worse Teo thereat publishes in 1925 land elorged for our exhibition entrance emegnes ‘he world Chatlenging geopolitical cnventions that se maps as aoa fo dete lerores the Surelsts fwngan-mperist Senimert ae demonsirated by placing he Pci lands athe cee They so ge prominence fo Save uss and erase the closing Powers of Eope, Japan, andthe Unie Slates. While embracing ant-aanl pots, urelssin Europe mistaken perceived an aff witha made by Indigenous peoples of Aca, Oceana and the Americas This fantasy of shared ideas and perspectives visible in ety Sureaist colections ural and exhstions. ‘Objects made by Indigencus peopes were nuded n ‘he 1936 exhbton of Sureast objets Pars These ‘werk, includes for hei perceived aesthetic vate wit a Eropean corer were sipped of place, maker and thei orga meaning Ths exposes how, even valing the at of inigeneus peoples and deplrng the ‘systems of colonalsm, Seats remained entangled hina cla atte of cutral appropriation COLLECTIVE 1oenTiTIES Suealsm depends upona collective boy of participants, len working ogee in tesponse fo pottiaor Social concen Tis uni acknowledges tht working Calaboraiey is oen mre pometl han as annua Inisoltion, Vewed aros tne and place, hs quality has been manfested in oupexhitions and demonsrans, Cowrten manfests aa decaratios, and broadly shared and cralated aris potial and soil vals. Colaboratve pursuits coud release what Simone Breton, an cari participant a Sureasm in Paris, calles images ‘imaginable by one mind lone’ xa of sch teneratve aces incde seanceske explorations of ances by Brelon and her coleagues, questionnaires published in the Belgrade Sureas! Cle’ journal, andthe Chicago Seats Spoken-word poetry pertrmed wih ‘musicans. Ths alec Ras been exresed trough art ‘aking especial evden the muliple cadre cus Texqusie corpse ravings gathered inthis room. These are ‘made by one participant erawng form ad, afer fling the Paper. sting tons that ony the ende canbe seen by 3 cond person wh continues he work and pares on ean Group prouction esters posit and intinacy, but iNean abo connec and make vibe aspoie ndvansnatonl communities

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