MARVELOUS UTOPIA
/19th International Surrealist Exhibition, Saint-Cirq-Lapopie
Surrealism was born in France in the wake of the First World War. An artistic, poetic, and philosophical investigation of the unconscious and the irrational, it aims to free the mind from convention and moral constraint in the pursuit of revolutionizing human experience. Contrary to popular opinion, the movement has never been part of the avant-garde. Far from an aesthetic of the bizarre, with which it is often conflated, Surrealism remains today what it was at its inception: a way of life.
