Is the unconscious as endless as the universe? What shapes our thoughts? What colors our nightmares? These questions occupied the Surrealists, members of a movement founded by André Breton in 1924. To explore such questions, artists and writers experimented with various techniques: automatic drawing and writing (automatism), in which the hand guided the mind; chance-based methods like the game Cadavre Exquis; and the placement of everyday objects in illogical settings. Did these methods capture the language of dreams? This exhibition in Dallas brings together a wide range of artists who engaged with Surrealism—from René Magritte, Max Ernst, and Leonora Carrington to the Cuban painter Wifredo Lam and the Mozambican artist Malangatana Ngwenya. —Elena Clavarino