Surrealism at the Showers la Galerie.
Coming to this exhibition space is a little treasure hunt.
Tucked away in a street at right angles between the Saint-Martin and République canals, the gallery installed upstairs in the walls of a former public bath is already a curiosity.
Françoise Morin, passionate about images, makes us discover each time her photographic favorites.
This month, it presents the work of twelve artists, through forty black and white prints, which explore the strangeness.
In this set entitled “At the borders of reality”, our gaze is challenged by a fragmented body, an ordinary object or a forgotten landscape.
So many playful and technical experiments carried out in the 1920s to 1950s by surrealist “researchers”.
Among them, Denise Bellon, Willy Ronis, André Steiner and, of course, Philippe Halsman.
All practice photomontage, dreamlike superimposition or solarization.
We are surprised by this
Levitating Woman
(1947)…
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