The exhibition presents six young artistic positions on the subject of surrealism and photography. The occasion is the show Fotogaga. Max Ernst and Photography. A visit from the Würth collection, which can be seen at the Museum of Photography until 27 April 2025.
Surrender to the dreamers offers a perspective on photography as a medium that transcends the limits of the visible and ventures beyond mere sensory perception. In both exhibitions, artists utilize photography to unveil the hidden and conjure previously unseen, unfamiliar visions.
Through hands-on manipulation and experimentation, the featured artists excavate family secrets, shed light on forgotten women, and reconstruct missing archives, among other pursuits. By materializing shadows and actualizing dreams, the works in the exhibition go far beyond mere escapism. They engage with and challenge dominant representations of reality.
By means of imagination, fiction, and reconstruction, the artists demonstrate how photography can be employed to reveal new ways of seeing and narrating personal, familial, and collective histories. Rather than a result, the photographic image becomes a raw material, altered and reshaped to address absences and fill gaps.