Dada was an art movement in revolt against Western art itself and the bourgeois values that underpinned it.

Dada was an enraged art of disgust at the wickedness of an establishment that had given rise to the First World War. Dada's absolute independence from that establishment and all established art forms was rather its point.

expresses this idea explicity. Art's inner sovereignty (in the face of hostility or oppression) is the source of its strength and the main reason why totalitarian regimes of all kinds are so afraid of it.

marks the 105th anniversary of the publication of Tristan Tzara's first Dada magazines in Zurich, switzerland.

Visually, the artworks feature flaws like tears, uneven inking and foxing derived from the physical fabric of the original Dada pamphlets.