Watch MoMA’s Documentary on ‘Exquisite Corpse’, A Game Surrealists Artists Play

The Exquisite Corpse, known as “Cadavre Exquis” in French, is a surrealist game with roots stretching back to 1925, and it’s still stirring imaginations nearly a century later. Originally dreamed up by artists like André Breton, Yves Tanguy, Jacques Prévert, and Marcel Duchamp, the game invites participants to co-create strange, often humorous works by contributing in secret. Each player adds to a piece of art or text, folds the paper to conceal their part, and passes it along, resulting in a surprising, collaborative creation that reflects the beauty of chance.