“A pageant of collapse, comedy, and transcendence at the edge of the world.”

   The Adelaide Salon invites you into a theatre of surreal, where painting, performance, sound and ritual interlace. The exhibition stages immersive canvasses by The Baron Gilvan—interiors and landscapes where figures hover in reverie or collapse, where the interplay of conscious and unconscious takes you through all private dramas.

From these painted architectures, live works emerge. 

   Yara Wereik translates brushstrokes into movement, animating still tableaux through bodily automatism. James Li’s contrabass cello resounds like subterranean weather, while Disrupted Rhythms fracture patterns of sound and image to expose the uncanny cadences beneath. Isobel Smith and Foz Foster transform the simple act of pouring tea into a sonic ritual, recalling Surrealism’s fascination with everyday objects made strange. Aisling Zambon, through intimate one-to-one encounters, stages the artist as trickster and witness, asking each participant to step into a theatre of confession and transformation.

   Together, these works form not a sequence but a constellation. They echo André Breton’s wager that the marvellous appears when dream and waking life collide, when the ordinary is estranged, and when the unconscious takes form.

We invite you to enter this room with curiosity. Allow the works to mislead and unsettle, and discover affinities where bodies become landscapes, teapots sing, and the unconscious itself takes the stage.

                                                                              - P.P