“L’SPACE Gallery is pleased to present Shape of Dreams, an exhibition of sculptures by Leonora Carrington. The exhibition marks a rare presentation of Carrington’s sculpture in the United States, offering a focused encounter with a body of work that has been less widely exhibited in this country. The presentation includes an interactive Tarot Reading Booth in which visitors encounter Carrington’s voice, reconstructed through AI, delivering intimate readings from the deck she designed. 

Curated by the Director of L’SPACE Gallery in collaboration with Consigna Gallery in Mexico City, and presented with the support of the Leonora Carrington Council, Shape of Dreams situates the sculptures within Carrington’s broader cosmology, a world in which boundaries between human, animal, and spirit dissolve, and meaning unfolds through dream, ritual, and intuition.

The exhibition brings together a significant selection of Carrington’s bronze sculptures, such as Catwoman, The Ship of Cranes, The Palmist and Unknown all produced during her lifetime. Emerging directly from the same visionary universe as her paintings, these works translate her mythological figures, hybrid beings, and symbolic language into three-dimensional form. At once intimate and monumental, the sculptures embody Carrington’s enduring exploration of transformation, mysticism, and the subconscious her figures appearing to step out of her canvases and into physical space.” — L’SPACE Gallery

“I’ve always had access to other worlds. We all do because we dream.” — Leonora Carrington   

Title image: Installation View of Shape of Dreams, The Palmist (detail), 2011, Lost-wax bronze casting, 103 x 50 x 33 in, 260 x 125x 82 cm.

Images courtesy L’SPACE Gallery.