IN WONDERLAND
The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists
in Mexico and the United States
7 June to 3 September 2012
This summer, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec has the privilege of being the sole Canadian venue to host an international exhibition spotlighting the tremendous contribution of women to the Surrealist movement in Mexico and the United States.

In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States is the first large-scale international survey of women surrealist artists in North America. Spanning more than five decades, In Wonderland brings together 179 works – paintings, sculptures, films, works on paper and photographs –from nearly 75 public and private collections in the United States, Mexico and Europe.

Among the fantasies and phantasms expressed can be found questions of identity, sexuality, witchcraft, creativity, psychoanalysis, memory, dreams, sentimentality, politics and war, indigenous culture, Mother Earth and universal mythology. An extraordinary journey, like that of Alice in Wonderland, dotted with strange and fabulous encounters…