LEO//NORA

What is the nature of an artist during political crisis? When World War II was on the horizon, surrealist painter Leonora Carrington fled to Mexico. LEO//NORA asks: why? Instead of answering, s/he throws a house-warming party. Instead of partying, the balloons begin to talk. The political becomes the personal in questionable conflation. Rita becomes Leonora who becomes Rita – two’s company, three’s a crowd. When World War III was on the horizon, a nobody named Rita DiSibio fled within themselves. LEO//NORA asks: what are the consequences? “They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.” – Frida Kahlo