Dreams Suspended in the Desert was exhibited in a show by the Surrealist group at L'Étoile Scellée in July, 1954. L'Étoile Scellée loosely translates as 'At the Sealed Star' (but can also be read phonetically as Ah les toiles c'est laid / "Ah the canvases are rude") and was at this time the epicentre for all Surrealist activity in Europe. This painting was exhibited alongside pictures by Magritte, Man Ray, and Dorothea Tanning, among others, and Zeno recalled that one could hardly walk because of the number of visitors. In Dreams Suspended, a mass of automatic, curvilinear shapes hang unhurriedly in the desert, seemingly drawn to the darker blotches of the composition.