Forbidden Territories: 100 years of Surreal Landscapes, a new exhibition showing at The Hepworth Wakefield, is a bold and engaging exploration of the important, if unwieldy, body of work that comes under the category of surrealism.
The exhibition has been timed to mark the 100th anniversary of French writer André Breton’s first surrealist manifesto. The publication brought together an incongruous group of artists, writers and philosophers under the flag of surrealism for the first time.
In doing so, the gallery joins many others around the world – commemorations have taken place throughout 2024 in cities such as Paris, Munich and Shanghai. It’s also perfectly complimented by the simultaneous opening of the sister exhibition, The Traumatic Surreal, at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds.
