LAMB Gallery is pleased to present Surrealism and Witchcraft, a new group show of 11 emerging and established artists
LAMB Gallery is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition Surrealism and Witchcraft. Running from 16 November – 20 December 2023, the group exhibition investigates the resonance of the witch figure in art history through the works of 11 female artists inspired by Surrealism. The works span from the beginnings of the movement to the present, particularly highlighting the witch’s feminist significance through pieces that ironically unravel the Freudian symbolism of these broom-riding women.
In the first half of the 20th century, when the post-war world was a chaotic blend of progress and loss, advances in medicine and psychology fostered a re-evaluation of the relationship between the mind and the body. In these conflicting contexts of devastation and development, André Breton and Sigmund Freud spearheaded a new philosophy, in which dreams and reality would resolve into a kind of new absolute truth. Rooted in the same exploration of the subconscious and experimentation with the irrational, Surrealism was born and remains popular today. Although the movement has since been largely male dominated, women have long employed its practices to liberate the creative potential of their subconscious minds, with Mexico an early hive of female Surrealists including Frida Kahlo Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo and more. Often drawing on the figure of the witch, the magical entity gradually became a vehicle for women artists to release the depth of their dreams and explore ideas of gender and sexuality.
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