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With this exhibition, the Art Institute builds on its institutional commitments to collecting, exhibiting, and contributing to the research on Surrealist work. It also reaffirms the museum’s commitments to recent vital collaborations with Mexican art institutions such as the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City.

“In Varo’s work there is often a sense of geographic travel, but also a sense of traveling down material pathways that no one has ever looked at before,” says curator Caitlin Haskell.

While Varo's work does feature many female protagonists, her sex is not the primary factor in her significance as an artist.

Varo, the star of a new Art Institute of Chicago exhibition, created fantastical scenes that explored mystical realms and higher states of consciousness.

Varo, the star of a new Art Institute of Chicago exhibition, created fantastical scenes that explored mystical realms and higher states of consciousness.

Varo, the star of a new Art Institute of Chicago exhibition, created fantastical scenes that explored mystical realms and higher states of consciousness.

Varo, the star of a new Art Institute of Chicago exhibition, created fantastical scenes that explored mystical realms and higher states of consciousness.