Magical Neorealism

Magical Realism explores the point where everyday reality begins to shift without completely losing its recognisable form. Familiar bodies, landscapes, interiors and objects remain connected to the real world, yet they are crossed by dreams, myths, memories, symbols and impossible events. Unlike fantasy, Magical Realism does not create a separate universe: it allows the extraordinary to appear inside ordinary life, often without explanation.

This category brings together artists, exhibitions and critical perspectives that investigate the relationship between reality and imagination across modern and contemporary art. It examines how painters, photographers, sculptors and interdisciplinary artists use ambiguity, altered perception, folklore, spirituality and the uncanny to reveal hidden dimensions of personal, social and political experience.

From mysterious domestic scenes and suspended landscapes to visionary bodies, symbolic animals and unsettling narratives, Magical Realism challenges the distinction between what is visible and what is believed, remembered or feared. These articles explore the artists, artworks and exhibitions that transform reality not by escaping from it, but by showing how strange, unstable and imaginative it already is.