SPECIAL: GARDEN OF HYENAS

27-28 November

Special: Garden of Hyenas builds on the exhibition ‘The Symptomatic Surreal: Leonora Carrington’, exploring the artist’s visual world and ideas through lived experience and artistic language. On 27 and 28 November, a series of performances, conversations and activities offers new ways to engage with Carrington’s imagination and the forms of knowledge that run through her work.
 

In 1938, Leonora Carrington wrote The Debutante, a short story in which she recounts how her friendship with a hyena allows her to challenge the rigid social conventions of her time and express her wild femininity. The artist’s distinctive language features hybrid figures that transform bodies and entities, blurring the boundaries between the human, animal, and plant worlds and creating a symbolic universe of her own. In her work, the feminine and natural dimensions are conceived as an uncontrollable, generative force linked to unregulated forms of knowledge, closer to magical thinking, intuition, subjectivity and the unconscious.
 

Garden of Hyenas will bring together Ana Laura Aláez, Victoria Cirlot, Laia Estruch, Menchu Gutiérrez, Equipo Jeleton, María Jerez, Carlos Monleón, and Rosa Tharrats & Gabriel Ventura, whose contributions, drawing on their individual practices, will offer diverse perspectives that expand the resonances of Carrington’s work through contemporary art and thought. Curated by Pilar Soler Montes.
 

27 November, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm. Victoria Cirlot: Leonora at the other side of the mirror

27 November, 8 pm - 9 pm. Carlos Monleón, Medicina de Luna 

28 November, 11 am - 12 pm. Equipo Jeleton, All Night Listening to the Plants Grow

28 November, 12 pm - 1 pm. Childrens’ workshop: Cocodriles, triangles, horns and magicians with María Jerez

28 November, 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm.  Who am I? Lecture by Menchu Gutiérrez.

28 November, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm. Rosa Tharrats & Gabriel Ventura, El riu era verd i blau i groc. Auditorium.

28 November, 5 pm - 5:40 pm. Ana Laura Aláez, Bambi leona. Performance. Auditorium.

28 November, 7:00 pm - 7:40 pm. Laia Estruch, Un aire a dos tiempos. Performance. Faro Santander.

28 November, 8:30 pm  María Jerez, SESSION 01. Performance. Auditorium.