Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up

“Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up” at the V&A in collaboration with the Frida Kahlo Museum , is the first exhibition outside of México to display clothes and intimate possessions belonging to the iconic Mexican artist.

The exhibition display more than 200 objects from the Blue House. Kahlo’s personal items including outfits, letters, jewellery, cosmetics, medicines and medical corsets were discovered in 2004, 50 years after being sealed in the Blue House by her husband Diego Rivera.

Exploring Kahlo’s highly choreographed appearance and style, these include 22 distinctive colourful Tehuana garments; pre-Columbian necklaces that Frida strung herself; examples of intricately hand painted corsets and prosthetics which are displayed alongside film and photography of the artist as a visual narrative of her life.

The exhibition also explores Kahlo’s Mexico and her sense of cultural pride and enthusiastic desire to embrace a national identity, Kahlo used her striking appearance as a political statement, crafting her identity to reflect her own mestizo (mixed-race) identity and allegiance to Mexican identity.

When?
14 June – 4 November 2018

Where?
V&A
Cromwell Road,
London SW7 2RL

Daily: 10.00 – 17.45
Friday: 10.00 – 22.00

Webpage:
https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/frida-kahlo-making-her-self-up
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