‘In Your Dreams’: The forgotten Surrealist Bona de Mandiargues is finally getting her due in London
Millen Brown-Ewens, The World of Interiors
June 2025
‘In addition to embracing the movement’s familiar visual motifs, Bona, the mononym she self-fashioned during this time, shared a wide set of interests with the Surrealists, such as alchemy, tarot and especially dreams,’ explains the exhibitions curator, Simon Grant. ‘She preferred dreaming to thinking, which I think explains the sense of the visceral spontaneity in her work.’ […]