![]() ![]() In the world they created, sans male leads, they were Surrealism’s leading ladies. Theirs was a distinctly feminine Surrealism, unfettered by the iconic men of the European movement. Not everyone was a fan-Frida Kahlo apparently called them “those European bitches.” ![]() Roma attracted many expat artists, but the trio mainly kept to themselves-all three interested in the intersection between art, mysticism, and the occult. After President Lázaro Cárdenas opened Mexico’s borders to European refugees in 1942, Carrington, Horna, and Varo were among those who found sanctuary. ![]() ![]() The mid-twentieth-century Spanish Mexican artist Remedios Varo once wrote a fan letter to Gerald Gardner, known in the UK as the “father of modern witchcraft,” in which she let him know that in Mexico City he was not alone: “I, Mrs Carrington and some other people have devoted ourselves to seeking out facts and data still preserved in isolated areas where true witchcraft is still practiced.” They say witches often come in threes, and Varo and her best friends, the painter and writer Leonora Carrington and the photographer Kati Horna, formed their own coven in the city’s Colonia Roma neighborhood. ![]()
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