Leonora Carrington and the dream in the borderspace

A feminist perspective

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https://doi.org/10.5935/2177-6644.20230009

Abstract

The artist Leonora Carrington has awakened increasing interest in feminist and art history studies, among other reasons, for the feminist poetics developed throughout her long career. This feminist poetics accompanies immersion into the unconscious, alchemic transformation and transmutation shrouded by an oneiric narrative that displaces the concept of dream solely as the expression of repressed desire. Thus, this work purports to debate, from a dialogue with theories that examine the dream as an opening to the knowledge of the self, how the oeuvre of Carrington can open breaches in the schisms of a binary patriarchic culture. To that end, two paintings by the artist that illustrate and complement the analysis will be further analyzed.

Keywords: Leonora Carrington, dreams, surrealism, feminisms, borderspace.

Author Biography

  • Ana Carolina Salvi (UNICAMP), Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP

    Ph.D Student in History in the Gender, Subjectivity and Material Culture area at Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Has a bachelor degree in Psychology and a Maters in Visual Arts by Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Participates as researcher in the seminar "Connecting art histories: Narrating Art and Feminisms - Eastern Europe and Latin America", association between University of Warsaw and Getty Foundation. Is mostly focused on the themes of Gender and Subjectivity in dialogue with Art, Psychoanalysis and History.

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Published

2023-06-19

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 1 (2023): Diálogos Interdisciplinares: o estudo de sujeitos circunscritos pelos marcadores sociais da diferença

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Dossiê | Special Issue | Dossier

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