The Pomps of the Subsoil, Leonora Carrington, 1947 (detail)
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What would it feel like to be in a darkened room at the 1938 International Surrealist Exhibition in Paris with 1200 sacks of coal suspended from the ceiling above your head?** Claustrophobic? Precarious? Fearful of what might happen? Sound familiar?
There were many such moments walking around F…