Looking at a range of Surrealist painters – from Salvador Dali to Frida Kahlo, we will dive into their dreamlike worlds filled with symbols and meaning. By linking their ideas to new theories of psychoanalysis, rising during the 20th century, we will start to unravel the common subject matters that can be found across many artists’ practices of that time. Beside the use of dream analysis, they also emphasised that “one could combine inside the same frame, elements not normally found together to produce illogical and startling effects”, as Breton wrote in his 1924 Surrealist manifesto. In this session we will look at how they did just that – turning the mundane into the extraordinary!