THE SURREAL BODY

 

Dorothy Hood’s enigmatic drawings place The Surreal Body at the center of surrealism, highlighting the body as a mystical, ever-shifting force shaped by the unpredictability of memory, place, and nature. Julia Kunin’s iridescent ceramics capture the body in moments of bliss through formalism, performance, and excess, drawing on futurist design, Bauhaus theater, and the symbolic language of prehistoric mark-making.

 

Joel Parsons evokes the blur and vibration of an ecstatic, queer, late-night dance floor. Katarzyna Przezwańska’s sculptural forms channel Salvador Dalí, Elsa Schiaparelli, and the Venus of Willendorf, where fragmentation and desire collapse into image. The psychically charged body remains a fluxus site of transformation and sensation..