"The body is like a sentence that invites you to take it apart so that its true contents can be recomposed in an endless series of anagrams."
A French artist of German origin, Hans Bellmer stands among the major figures of the surrealist group. His emblematic work "la Poupée (The Doll)" (1934) is a surrealist object par excellence that would come to occupy a place at the heart of his oeuvre. The doll runs through all of Bellmer's artistic practice, from his photographs and drawings to his sculptural objects and his paintings. Violent and subversive, Bellmer’s art presents an anatomy of desire with courage and ambition. Charged with a mysterious eroticism, his works are perfect illustrations of unconscious fantasies and overwhelming madness.