Our method of curation runs parallel to that described by Breton in his L'art magique-a jump through centuries unbounded by the strictures of time and place. Though we assume the dream to be a unified phenomenon of human experience, our exhibition examines how Western artists have depicted dreams for very different audiences and different times. Whether representing dream through a metaphysical or religious lens, or through the lens of psychology, whether assuming an external or internal origin of the dream, artists through the centuries have asked fundamental questions about how the waking world shapes the dream, and how the dream has, and can, lead to new understandings of the self and the world.

The Dalí Museum presents "Floral Fantasies (???)," an exhibition of three Dalí botanical print suites from the permanent collection, plus a selection of the original nineteenth century botanical illustrations that Dalí transformed. In each suite, Dalí reimagines nature, creating new botanical hybrids to provoke and delight. The 37 prints come from three suites: Flordali (Flora Dalinae) and FlorDali - Les Fruits (both 1968), and Florals (Surrealist Flowers) (1972). Working from historical illustrations by such artists as French botanist Pierre-Antoine Poiteau and Belgian Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Dalí juxtaposes incongruent elements to transform the fruit and flowers into anthropomorphic dream characters, each sprouting surreal appendages and embellished with a host of Dalínian symbols including flies, ants, clocks, eyes, rocks, and beans.