ON VIEW: Francesca Woodman in "The Subterranean Sky: Surrealism in the Moderna Museet Collection" and “Blur / Obscure / Distort: Photography and Perception,” 2025
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Francesca Woodman in The Subterranean Sky: Surrealism in the Moderna Museet Collection
Moderna Museet
Stockholm, Sweden
Through November 1, 2026
Opened last year to mark the centennial of André Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto, this comprehensive exhibition offers a journey through the ongoing evolution of Surrealism. Francesca Woodman, who once reflected that she “would like words to be to my photographs what the photographs are to the text in [Breton’s] Nadja,” allusive and enigmatic rather than ordinary and unmysterious, was influenced by surrealist poetics during time spent at the Libreria Maldoror in Rome. She often used Surrealism’s juxtaposition of dream worlds and reality as a springboard for her own visual language. In this exhibition, six photographs by Woodman are on display alongside works by Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Claude Cahun, Meret Oppenheim, Man Ray, and others.
Francesca Woodman in Blur / Obscure / Distort: Photography and Perception
Norton Museum of Art
West Palm Beach, Florida
Woodman’s “Untitled,” 1977 is also on view in Blur / Obscure / Distort: Photography and Perception at the Norton through August 24. The exhibition brings together photographs that disrupt viewers’ sense of time, space, place, or scale through blurring, distortion, and obfuscation—which Woodman was no stranger to.