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A Parlour for Icons
by Dalia Maini
Before being captured by the Victorian elite, the parlour represented a peculiar space of encounter: a threshold between private and public life, where people who did not ordinarily overlap were brought into temporary resonance. Hierarchies softened there. The room held, for a time, figures who would not otherwise meet. In this capacious version of the parlour, Lea von Wintzingerode's exhibition Icone summons. A room of gathering in which portraits of composers are brought together as if they had always been acquainted—though in the paintings themselves, each figure appears alone. Across oil and canvas, composers Oksana Linde, Daphne Oram, and Annea Lockwood did not choose each other's company. Lea arranges the meeting, against a long habit of isolating and forgetting.
These "icons" gathered in the show are icons of a particular kind. Not the canonical figures of Western art history, but artists pushed to the edges of official memory: female and queer…
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Press Release
A Parlour for Icons
by Dalia Maini
Before being captured by the Victorian elite, the parlour represented a peculiar space of encounter: a threshold between private and public life, where people who did not ordinarily overlap were brought into temporary resonance. Hierarchies softened there. The room held, for a time, figures who would not otherwise meet. In this capacious version of the parlour, Lea von Wintzingerode's exhibition Icone summons. A room of gathering in which portraits of composers are brought together as if they had always been acquainted—though in the paintings themselves, each figure appears alone. Across oil and canvas, composers Oksana Linde, Daphne Oram, and Annea Lockwood did not choose each other's company. Lea arranges the meeting, against a long habit of isolating and forgetting.
These "icons" gathered in the show are icons of a particular kind. Not the canonical figures of Western art history, but artists pushed to the edges of official memory: female and queer…


























































