These stories of curious creatures and fantastical structures have provided both title and guiding spirit to Cecilia Alemani, curator of this year’s Venice Biennale. Welcome to Leche del sueño (The Milk of Dreams) fables told by British artist and writer Leonora Carrington to her children in Mexico during the 1950s (and first published in 2012). His sister put a crocodile in his bed, but it was charmed by his lovely face: boy and croc teamed up, making Humbert meaner than ever. John had wings for ears his head flew out of the window, and his mother stuck it back on with chewing gum. George chewed walls: his father tried wall pills to cure him, but his head grew into a house.
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