The Â鶹ÊÓƵ 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, , and an opportunity to view the exhibition out of hours. The second day at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ 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.â€
Ticket holders for day one of the conference at the Freud Museum have their ticket to day two at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Institute included.ÌýÌý
Find out more about day one of the conference, and book your ticket via: .
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 Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s MA Curating programme in collaboration with the Freud Museum,
Schedule for the day
10.00 – 10.30: Registration opens
Â鶹ÊÓƵ Institute, Vernon Square Campus
10.30: Opening remarks
Sofia Gotti and MA Curating team
Introduction to the conference
Dawn Ades, Emeritus Professor, University of Essex
Keynote
Alyce Mahon, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, University of Cambridge
Professor Alyce Mahon in conversation with Professor Dawn Ades followed by Q&A
12:30 – 13:45: Lunch break
Provided for speakers and organisers only
13.45 – 15.15: Session I
Chaired by Dr Julia Skelly, Assistant Professor in Histories of Photography & Art History, Concordia University
Dr Victoria Ferentinou [Online}, Assistant Professor in Theory of Art, University of Ioannina
Dr Helen Bremm, Curatorial Assistant, Fondation Beyeler
Dr Felicity Gee, Associate Professor of Modern Literatures and Avant-Garde Studies, University of Exeter
Sarah Wilson, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Institute
15.15 – 16.00: Refreshment break
16.00 – 17.00: Panel discussion and Q&A
With Dr Helen Bremm, Dr Felicity Gee, and Professor Sarah Wilson
17.00 – 17.30: Refreshment break
17.30: Plenary with a contribution from artist Rose English
Closing remarks: MA Curating team
18.00: Drinks reception
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