"To the surrealists, the home was a mirror of the psyche: a capsule of deep memories, sexual urges, of dreams and fears. In a world of crowded cities and war, the indoors was a repository of anxieties about the outdoors. Often the surrealists played this out in theatrical stage sets such as Alberto Giacometti's haunting dreamscape The Palace at 4am – the show has Giacometti's painting of it rather than the wonderful sculpture – and Louise Bourgeois's No Exit, a wooden staircase turned into a saw-toothed phallus. Welcome to what Freud called the uncanny, or unheimlich (literally "unhomely"). Things here are familiar but uncomfortable – home, but certainly not sweet home..."

Interior dark: two shows reveal visions of the unhomely