Exhibition Dates: May 14th – July 25th, 2026
“I’ve always had access to other worlds. We all do because we dream.”
— Leonora Carrington
NEW YORK — L’SPACE Gallery is pleased to present Shape of Dreams, an exhibition of sculptures by Leonora Carrington, on view from May 14th through July 25th, 2026. 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 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 Cat Woman, 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.
WORKS BY PABLO WEISZ CARRINGTON
Expanding the context of the presentation, Shape of Dreams includes three sculptures by Pablo Weisz Carrington, the artist’s son, as well as a rare collaborative work created by Leonora Carrington together with Pablo and Gabriel Weisz Carrington prior to her passing. These works offer insight into the technical and creative dialogue surrounding Carrington’s sculptural practice. Pablo Weisz Carrington, who operated the foundry responsible for casting Carrington’s bronzes, played a central role in the material realization of her sculptures, translating her imagery into enduring form.
JEWELRY
The exhibition also features a selection of jewelry pieces derived from Carrington’s sculptural forms, extending her symbolic vocabulary into wearable objects and bringing her imagery into an intimate, bodily scale.
Through sculpture, sound, and object, Shape of Dreams offers a multidimensional encounter with Carrington’s universe—one where form, myth, and intuition converge.
ABOUT LEONORA CARRINGTON
Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) was a British-born Surrealist painter and sculptor who spent much of her life in Mexico City. One of the last surviving members of the Surrealist movement, she developed a singular visual language rooted in alchemy, mythology, Celtic folklore, and the occult. Her work—spanning painting, sculpture, fiction, and theater—remains among the most inventive and enduring of the twentieth century.
ABOUT THE LEONORA CARRINGTON COUNCIL
The Leonora Carrington Council preserves and promotes the legacy of Leonora Carrington’s work, bringing it to museums and cultural institutions internationally. Under the leadership of Fermín Llamazares LL, President of the Council, the Foundation ensures the integrity of Carrington’s vision endures for future generations.
ABOUT L’SPACE
Founded in 2023 by artist and curator Lili Almog, L’SPACE Gallery is a contemporary art gallery dedicated to research-driven, thematically focused exhibitions that foreground strong visual languages and experimental practices. The gallery advances cross-disciplinary dialogue and material exploration through original curatorial projects, related programming, and sustained collaborations with artists, curators, and cultural organizations.
