You’re showing in “Surrealism Beyond Borders” at the Tate Modern. What does Surrealism mean to you?

Through [the artist sometimes called “the last Spanish Surrealist”] Eugenio Fernandez Granell, I learned DADA [an early 20th century avant-garde art movement] and Surrealism came into being as the result of historical events, namely the First World War.

I travelled to Paris in 1954. I met Granell there, who introduced me to the Surrealist group then surrounding André Bretón. With Granell I visited the studio of Wifredo Lam. His Afro-cuban sources and