The 2025 David Vilaseca Memorial Lecture

The 2025 David Vilaseca Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Dr. Alicia Kent, Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature & Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at King’s College London. The lecture looks at David Vilaseca’s ‘apocryphal subject’ Salvador Dalí and examines the different Dalís in his own words and images: the artist, the anarchist, the writer, the journalist, the surrealist, the scientist.

The event takes place online, via MS Teams, and is free and open to all. For further inormation and a meeting link please send a message to: centreforvisualcultures@royalholloway.ac.uk

Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach by Salvador Dalí, 1938. Oil on canvas. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford CT. A painting of a face and a fruit bowl on a beach with hidden figures and visual puzzles set against a rocky backdrop in tones of yellow, brown and orange with blue and red highlights.