The International Surrealist Exhibition, André Masson’s Mannequin

The International Surrealist Exhibition took place in Paris in 1938. The - appropriately surreal - experience of sensations, organized by curator Marcel Duchamp and special advisers Salvador Dalí and Max Ernst, started right at the entrance to the Galeria de Belas Artes. The vestibule, called “The most beautiful streets in Paris”, showed 16 mannequins created and arranged by several artists, such as André Masson, Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Kurt Seligmann, Sonia Mossé, Oscar Domínguez and also Man Ray, who, in addition to exhibiting, photographed the works. In addition to bringing up discussions about the feminine, idealization and desire, the group inaugurated what later became known as an “artistic installation”