“Under Mexican president Lázaro Cárdenas, immigration laws in the country were often more relaxed than in the United States, especially toward foreigners who supported the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War. While the conditions of exile were dire, this experience led to a regeneration of original Surrealist tenets that saw an increase in the number of women as active contributors to the movement (rather than muses), and an engagement with the mystical power of the Mexican landscape, local customs, and pre-Columbian history.”
-Jennifer Field, Surrealism in Mexico, Di Donna, Curated by Tere Arcq and Dr. Salomon Grimberg