Selection of period and contemporary photographs, collages and videos by authors whose artistic expression is the outcome of work done with total freedom of thought, far from any social taboos or commercial constraints.

André Breton’s First Manifesto of Surrealism, published in 1924, is turning 100 years old this year. Around that time, the works of Germaine Krull, Man Ray, Lucía Moholy and Kertész were ascendant in Europe.  Edward Weston and Tina Modotti went from the United States to Mexico, where the country’s traditions and dazzling light led them to use their cameras to explore other ways of showing a people’s beauty and feelings. The International Exhibition of Surrealism that Breton organised in Mexico in 1940, which featured the works of artists like Manuel Álvarez Bravo, dovetailed with the arrival of artists like Leonora Carrington, Kati  Horna and Remedios Varo, who were fleeing the war in Europe and settled in Mexico.

From then on, the ideology contained in the Manifesto of Surrealism served as the foundation for several generations of artists all over the world who were not members of a specific group but whose acuity reinforced  other ways of seeing in order to appreciate what may seem discordant.