The Woman Who Carried a Garden
A portrait becomes an inner landscape. We look at the strange intimacy between the human figure and the worlds it contains.
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The Architecture of a Dream
Surrealism has never been only about strange pictures. It is about what happens when the rules that organize ordinary reality are loosened. A doorway can become a memory. A face can become a landscape. A room can contain a lifetime.
This is where Arelle begins: with the belief that an artwork can be a doorway into a reality that cannot be reached by description alone.
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