Surreal Friends (WIP) Installation, 2022

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Work in progress for The Museo Leonora Carrington de San Luis Potosí. The piece will be downloadable audio guide to accompany visitors to the Museo.

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Hybrid beings, chimerae from hallucinations that verge on the edge of nightmare, surge from the depths of some collective unconscious, objects of hope and of desire. Her sculptures are a mixture of vegetable, animal and human that morph from one state to another.

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The WIP audio was recorded during my residency at The Museo Leonora Carrington de San Luis Potosí, Las Pozas in Xilitla and Mexico City. Additionally there will be a spoken word element to the piece influenced by her paintings, publishing short stories, a novel (The Hearing Trumpet) and memoir (Down Below) that preceded her flight from Europe to Mexico.

 

However, her art – from paintings and murals to stage designs, sculptures and costumes – stands at the heart of her vision. Drawing on Celtic, Catholic, Jewish and Mesoamerican legend, lore and ritual, it weaves these mingled sources into an ecstatic, enigmatic bestiary.

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Supported by a bursary from a-n The Artists Information Company 2018.