FS2007 : Visualising Modernity (FS2007)

In his first surrealist manifesto from 1924, Breton writes: “Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of association heretofore neglected, in the omnipotence of the dream, and in the disinterested play of thought”. The omnipotence of the dream is, in essence, the immense power of the dream and the dreamer, as well as the superiority of the dream over reality. It is precisely such omnipotent subconscious forces and dream images Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali ...