Leonora Carrington: What if the Impossible Wasn’t Impossible?
Leonora Carrington, a seminal figure in international Surrealism, is the subject of a forthcoming solo retrospective at Almine Rech’s Paris venue opening September 2026. The exhibition, titled The Art of Transmutation, surveys her career-spanning practice rooted in alchemy, Celtic mythology, tarot and Mexican Indigenous cosmologies. Carrington’s paintings dissolve boundaries between human and animal, male and female, dream and material reality through hybrid creatures and ambiguous worlds. Her artistic vision emerged from a life marked by wartime displacement from Europe to Mexico in 1941, where she remained. Her work exemplifies Surrealist principles of unconscious liberation and rejection of rationality, while her visual language achieves distinctive philosophical depth through layered mythological and spiritual frameworks that permit temporal and ontological fluidity across her compositions.
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