NEW YORK, NY.- L'SPACE Gallery presents Shape of Dreams, an exhibition of sculptures by Leonora Carrington, on view from May 14th through July 25, 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 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.

INTERACTIVE TAROT READING BOOTH

A central experiential component of the exhibition is an interactive Tarot Reading Booth, an immersive installation rooted in Carrington's lifelong engagement with esoteric systems and divination. Visitors are invited to select a card from a tarot deck that Carrington herself designed and encounter her voice reconstructed through AI technology in English, Spanish, and French as it delivers a reading. The installation creates an intimate bridge between the physical presence of the sculptures and the artist's own narrative and spiritual vision.

The booth was designed by the Leonora Carrington Council and originally fabricated for Sacred Talismans, an exhibition presented at André Breton's house in 2024–2025 in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, celebrating the centenary of Surrealism. Conceived as an interactive display for historical objects including Carrington's tarot cards, the booth makes its United States debut with this presentation.



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. 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.

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.



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 Leonora Carrington Council. The Council ensures the integrity of Carrington's vision endures for future generations.

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.