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Making a House Less Like Home

Author : marcelduchamp_admin Rene Magritte, "Le Dormeur téméraire" Image Source

The Barbican gallery’s "Surreal House" exhibit has opened and is drawing insightful reviews, most recently from the Financial Times. If the act of building and maintaining a home reflects the process of being in the world, then the surrealist project subverts that process by making "home" un-homelike.

 

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