Located on 194 Chihuahua Street in the Colonia Roma neighborhood of Mexico City, the large house that Leonora Carrington called home for more than sixty years will become the Museo Casa Estudio. As part of the celebrations to mark the 100th anniversary of Leonora Carrington's birth (April 6, 1917), the release of a documentary titled Territorio Leonora (Leonora Territory) has been announced. It centers on Carrington's life and her work as an artist. Many scenes contain excerpts from interviews recorded in her large property. During the press conference organized to announce the movie, filmmaker Gibrán Bazán said "The project and the name of the institutions behind the initiative of the Museo Casa Estudio will be announced in the coming weeks, but its inauguration is certain." The large house that Carrington turned into a universe for inspiration, the place where she created her mythic characters, her muse, remains intact. Leonora Carrington's property was located exactly halfway in the Colonia Roma and halfway in the Colonia Condesa, in a real estate that expanded 40 blocks across those two neighborhoods, and she rarely left the place. She was neighbors with Remedios Varo and Kati Horna, and her home became the center of social gatherings that included the attendance of personalities from the art scene of the time. Julio Cortázar, Aldous Huxley, Vivian Leigh, and André Breton were some of her friends and she spent a lot of time in their company. Leonora Carrington lived there until the day of her death in May of 2011. So the large house contains the artist's personal life. Her walls are decorated with personal photographs that connect her with England, her country of origin. The documentary is already available on Facebook and YouTube:
https://youtu.be/GmPIt184RLQ