OCMA (Orange County Museum of Art)

Deux Femmes brings together a collection of work by artist Leonor Fini (b. 1907, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d. 1996, Paris, France) and Leonora Carrington (b. 1917, Clayton Green, England; d. 2011, Mexico City, Mexico), each of whom emphasize metamorphosis and transformation as a source of power. Both artists lived in Paris in the 1930s and 1940s, engaging with ideas inherent in Surrealism— an international literary and artistic movement that explored the workings of the mind, championing the irrational, the poetic and the revolutionary. Deux Femmes celebrates the enduring legacy of Fini and Carrington, emphasizing how both artists used self-representation in an imaginative and defiant way, embracing duality and multiplicity of identities.

Deux Femmes is organized by OCMA’s Curatorial Department with support from the entire OCMA staff.