el es frida kahlo

el es frida kahlo, 2007

Frida Kahlo played with the identity that she wanted to project and the identity that was placed on her by others. Kahlo used her clothing, political affiliations, sexual escapades, and personal traumas, to create a character that informed her body of work. She inscribed her identity, painting her image over and over, constructing a mythology around her persona.

In el es frida kahlo artist Maya Escobar confronts the ambivalence she experience as a result of her simultaneous obsession with Frida Kahlo and weariness towards her commodification.

Viewed from a tiny pinhole, Escobar, dressed as Kahlo stands before a reproduction of one of her self portraits. With a mixture of rage, anxiety, and complete fear, she chants el es Frida Kahlo, ella es Frida Kahlo, el es Frida Kahlo, yo soy, yo soy, yo soy Frida Kahlo, he is Frida Kahlo, she is Frida Kahlo, I am, I am, I am Frida Kahlo. As Escobar yells, the painting behind her begins to fall. She violently tears down her braids and smudge off her makeup while continuing to yell I am Frida Kahlo, I am Frida Kahlo, yo soy Frida Kahlo!

from the piece forever frida on the commodification of Frida Kahlo

http://mayatalk.wordpress.com/2007/04/11/obsessed-with-frida-kahlo/

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[AsemitGoyim]

you looks like Bert from sesame street....do you know Bert?

[recklessragdoll]

Wonderful!

Very effective.

You look so much like her! :-o

[intecar]

oye no se que onda o que pedo pero si te estas burlando de FRIDA KAHLO pues la neta bete a la berga puta ramera embidia no perra

[ObzidianKnife]

calm and gentle...*smiles from ketzalkoatzinketzalkoatzin