Richard Saltoun Gallery
41 Dover Street
London W1S 4NS
Richard Saltoun Gallery presents the second chapter of Unveiled Desires: Fetish & The Erotic in Surrealism, 1880–Today, a two-part exhibition curated by Maudji Mendel of RAW (Rediscovering Art by Women). Dedicated to championing overlooked women artists, the exhibition continues the gallery's wider commitment to reframing Surrealism through the practices of women and queer artists across more than a century.
From its origins in 1920s Paris, Surrealism positioned desire, subversion, and the unconscious at the heart of its radical project. Yet women and queer artists have long redefined the erotic within the movement, not as spectacle, but as a potent force for self-representation, critique, and imaginative freedom. Across painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, and textile, Part II explores how eroticism shapes identity and acts as a lens through which psychic and symbolic landscapes are revealed.