And Then We Saw The Daughters of the Minotaur
LEONARA CARRINGTON
LEONARA CARRINGTON, 1953
Leonora Carrington freed herself from multiple worlds. Born into English aristocracy, she ran away to Paris to join the Surrealists, and then later to Mexico City where she worked prolifically but with little recognition. Her constant escape, however, was to her dreams, a higher plane of her reality. When she awoke she captured ethereal, fleeting, subconscious ideas on canvas. In a clouded room, nature, mysticism and the human meet. Her two sons stand at the table of a minotaur and a flowering mothlike deity. We have interrupted a scene, and are given only a glimpse of a world beyond our comprehension. Carrington paints fragments of a world only she can know: ‘I’ve always had access to other worlds. We all do. Because we dream’.