Forbidden Territories, which is organised by The Hepworth Wakefield, will take you on a journey through imagined universes, dreamlike scenes and bizarre features, looking at how Surreal ideas can turn landscape into a metaphor for the unconscious, fuse the bodily with the botanical, and provide a means to express political anxieties, gender constraints and freedoms.
It brings together an array of British and international artists including members of Breton’s original 1920s circle such as Salvador DalÃ, Eileen Agar, Lee Miller and Max Ernst, later Surrealists such as Leonora Carrington, Edith Rimmington and Desmond Morris, and modern and contemporary artists like Ithell Colquhoun, Wael Shawky who recently exhibited at the Venice Biennale, and Cornwall-based Ro Robertson.
University students and staff are invited to join Pastoral and Spiritual Support as we visit and experience a ‘Summer of Surrealism’ at The Box: taking a fantastical journey through this amazing exhibition. The journey will start at the Pastoral and Spiritual Support Service, 1 Kirkby Terrace, opposite the James Street Vaults pub. We will be leaving at 13:00 so please arrive by 12:45.
Email spiritualsupport@plymouth.ac.uk for further information.
The exhibition ends on Sunday 7 September – .