Artist field note

Frida Kahlo

The self becomes the battlefield.

The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo
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The Two Fridas

1939

Two versions of Kahlo sit hand in hand, their exposed hearts linked. Identity is split but physically connected.

The five in one idea

Kahlo turned autobiography into a visual mythology that could carry pain, politics, desire and self-invention.