Reading Through the Viscera: Leonora Carrington's Inhuman Bodymind

abstract: Leonora Carrington has long been recognized for her unique artistic vision, deeply informed by Mexican folklore, myth, occult practices, her relationships with Surrealist artists, and her own development of a symbolic and magical grammar. Less attention has been paid to her exploration of the vicissitudes of the body and her theorization of the relationships between body, mind, and environment. This article applies Elizabeth Wilson's concept of "gut feminism" to reread Carrington's Down Below from the viscera outward and unearth Carrington's theory of the inhuman bodymind.