About the artworkThrough games and play, the Surrealists tried to organise chance into different systems in order to reach the subconscious. Cadavre Exquis, meaning “exquisite corpse” or “exquisite cadaver”, is the name of one such chance-based game in which each person draws a part of a picture without seeing what the others have done. In 1925, the members of the Surrealist group played a word game in which everyone contributed a word from a predetermined word class. The words formed imaginative sentences, one of which read: “The exquisite cadaver will drink the new wine.” From this, the name was then taken for the artists’ visual game and for the work Cadavre Equis. Selected exhibition history Samlingsutställning 2004 - 2011 - I vår tid (2004 - 2011) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Supersurrealismen (den 29 september 2012 - den 27 januari 2013) Moderna Museet Malmö Den underjordiska himlen. Surrealism i Moderna Museets samling (den 26 oktober 2024 - den 17 januari 2027) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Moderna Museet c/o Bildmuseet - Dada och surrealism (2003) Bildmuseet, Umeå The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Moderna Museet besöker Bildmuseet i Umeå : 28 maj 1994 - 5 mars 1995

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