Deep beneath the polished surface of twentieth-century art, a strange silhouette scurries from the shadows. It is a figure born from dream and anxiety—the rat mutant. More than a creature of nightmare, it is a potent symbol from the heart of Surrealism’s most daring explorations. The Surrealists, obsessed with the subconscious and the bizarre, saw in the common rat a creature of two worlds: a f...
