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With the inspirational theme Sur/Reality, Maison&Objet and Peclers Paris are exploring, in January, the prolific vitality of a new Surrealism. It feeds on fantasy, distortion, randomness, humour and poetry to construct a narrative of new creative landscapes and of productions that are as surprising as they are desirable. In a complex and chaotic world, these daydreams are alternative realities that, through their originality, quirkiness and inventiveness, offer other realities that are escapist and often jubilant. These seditious side-steps put our daily lives on hold. 
 
At the show, this trend takes shape in unexpected objects and dreamlike settings that invite us to let go, and addresses consumers’ newfound appetite for the strange and the surprising. 
 
FROM SURREALISM TO SUR/REALITY
Sur/Reality highlights the lively topicality of Surrealism’s creative processes. The unreal and the absurd prove to be incredible stage design tools, revealing dreamlike worlds that appeal more to the emotions and the unconscious than to reason. Sur/Reality will be a common thread running through the show, staged by Maison&Objet’s curators and accompanied by Talks, and will also permeate the entire Maison&Objet ecosystem, from the selections on the MOM platform to the Paris In The City events. 
 
This neo-Surrealism freely conjures up the false and the bizarre, and invites us to play with the iterative properties of digital and the infinite random digressions made possible by AI, which are not unrelated to automatic writing nor to the exquisite corpses produced by André Breton’s disciples. Questioning reality and arousing curiosity through a form of abnormality invites us to reconnect with our instinctive creativity. The ways in which the fantastic can be brought to life in a sometimes too-firmly established order open up rich and fertile creative fields.
 
Maison&Objet (SAFI, a joint subsidiary of Ateliers d’Art de France and RX France) has been leading and bringing together the international decoration, design, and lifestyle community since 1994. The mission is to reveal talent, to offer opportunities for discussion and inspiration both online and offline, and to facilitate the development of businesses.