Spirits inspire artists to challenge social order
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Paulina Peavey and 16 other women artists explore spirit communication in the exhibition Conduits of the Unseen at the Andrew Edlin Gallery in Tribeca, New York.
Peavey’s art, created through communication with a nonbinary spirit named Lacamo, features colorful, layered imagery and reflects a belief in a future of “one-gender perfection.” Curator Susan Aberth observed a common theme in the artists’ work, a desire to dismantle patriarchal systems as directed by the spirits guiding them.
Aberth also explained that the Surrealist technique of “psychic automatism” originated with spiritualist women mediums. However, André Breton, a founder of the Surrealist movement, removed the spiritual elements and presented the practice as a solely psychological process. The exhibition seeks to reclaim the original metaphysical context of this art form and demonstrate its potential for social change.
