Projects -

Le Palais des Etoiles, Dadadandy at Selfridges

 

The Fountain of Innocence

As a homage to Surrealism, Dadadandy created a fantasy palace based on Surreal set designs from films such as Jean Cocteau’s ‘La Belle et La Bête’, ‘Orphée’ and Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’. The palace contains illusionary devices such as semi-transparent mirrors, distorted rooms and dramatically changing lighting, as well as Dadadandy artworks based on the 1938 International Surrealists Exposition in Paris.

The installation’s soundtrack is a combination of sound effects from thunderstorms to the chattering of monkeys juxtaposed with the music of composer Erik Satie’s ballet Parade, for which French poet, writer and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire wrote the programme notes, and coined the word ‘Surrealism’. The ballet premiered on May 18, 1917 at the Theatre du Châtelet in Paris.