The Surreal House - Interior Design Blog

Though the light is generally subdued, recalling the fearful descriptions of night from Macbeth, some exhibits, such as Lustre, are brightly illuminated to give them vast, spidery shadows and a distinct aura of menace. For instance, 's 1971 film, Jabberwocky, is amusing and darkly humorous, in what the exhibition describes as a 'wicked comedy'. Whilst, other displays are purely sinister, 's Charlie Don't Surf, 1997 (above) is a mannequin of a child at his school desk where malevolent pencils pierce the palms of the child's hands. The exhibition both draws you in and repels you away in equal measure in this unnervingly bizarre, yet absorbingly wonderful, world of surrealism.