Le mystère est exempt de pudeur 1935

Georges Hugnet made this collage, Le mystère est exempt de pudeur, around 1935, and it’s like stumbling into a dream—or maybe a slightly naughty daydream. The way Hugnet layers images, it feels like he's building a world out of snippets of thoughts. What really grabs me is the texture of it all. It's not just flat; you can almost feel the different layers of paper. There’s a figure behind bars, and then this woman in the foreground, seemingly wading in the ocean. Look at how the water's surface is rendered, so tactile and turbulent. The juxtaposition of these disparate elements creates a unique kind of surface tension. This work reminds me a bit of Hannah Höch, who also played with collage in a Dadaist context. But Hugnet brings his own strange poetry to the form. Ultimately, what does it all mean? I don't know! And maybe that's the point. It's more about the feeling than any fixed narrative.