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Coming by way of Povera rather than its more normalized pop onslaught, contemporary surrealism a vital materialist adaptation to old modes. Touching into the same desirous unconscious that packaged products diligently mine a libidinal desire from. It makes today’s surrealism feel "true" in that our access to its machinations is hidden. Arranging its objects as if knowing something you don’t, organized by a logic you cannot see taste touch or smell, like a monoxide. Surrealism must obfuscate in order to mirror the commodic penchant for touching something sublingual inside us. Like orchids selected over millennia for their ability to drive the Apoideas to lust, products live and die and evolve for their ability to incite within us a desire, a fear, a feeling, a sale. A t-shirt inside a sunflower.
See too : Michael E. Smith at Susanne Hilberry , Flat Neighbors at Rachel Uffner , Yuji Agematsu at Artspeak , Anicka Yi at Cleveland Museum