The Courtauld Institute MA Curating programme is delighted to stage this conference in partnership with the Freud Museum, exploring the life and work of Leonora Carrington. The conference begins with an introductory evening at the Freud Museum, including a welcome drink, presentations contextualising their current special exhibition, Leonora Carrington: The Symptomatic Surreal, and an opportunity to view the exhibition out of hours. The second day at the Courtauld Institute brings together an international panel of Carrington scholars to discuss her work from a number of different academic perspectives.
This conference is organised in conjunction with the Freud Museum’s current exhibition, The Symptomatic Surreal, curated by Vanessa Boni. The exhibition is the first dedicated to drawings from Carrington’s Santander sketchbooks, offering a unique vantage point from which to reconsider the artist’s wartime output. In these works, Carrington gives form to her psychological crisis through alchemical symbolism, human–animal hybrids, and depictions of the underworld. At the centre of the exhibition stands Down Below (1940), painted during her hospitalisation and serving as a key anchor for the exhibition. Carrington later described this period of her life as being “down below.”
Ticket holders for day one of the conference at the Freud Museum have their ticket to day two at the Courtauld Institute included.
Find out more about day one of the conference, and book your ticket via: https://www.freud.org.uk/event/leonora-carrington-navigating-a-world-down-below/.
Leonora Carrington: Navigating a World Below is organised by Cecilia Brandon-Cross, Ana Karime Sierra, Han Lu Tao and Sarah Vidalin as part of the Courtauld’s MA Curating programme in collaboration with the Freud Museum,
Full programme will be announced shortly.
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