Painting of a woman sat on a chair in the middle of a room, a hyena-like animal at her feet, her arm outstretched as if to pet it, with a white rocking horse behind her seemingly leaping through the air towards the curtain-framed window in the background

Surrealism Beyond Borders

This landmark exhibition will rewrite the history of the revolutionary art movement

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Need some help getting to grips with Surrealism? Peter Capaldi settles down on Freud's couch to deliver his wry take on the surrealist movement.

From Salvador Dalí and André Breton, to Joan Miró and Méret Oppenheim, this film looks at how sex, automatism and the unconscious mind is explored with surrealism.

Surrealism Beyond Borders is on a Tate Modern 24 February – 29 August 2022

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