“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect”, Oscar Wilde declared, with his characteristic shrewdness and foresight.

Indeed, the phrase ‘Expect the unexpected’ chimes everywhere in our society, from the ads in the Underground to political slogans;

it is what we are tacitly told whenever we enter a cinema, buy a new phone, or check the news;

it is at the root of our thirst for travelling, our compulsive consumerism, and our frenzied social lives.

The London Encounter 2017 – Leaflet