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Frida Kahlo: 1907-1954 Pain and Passion

Identity is a process.Identity is synaesthetic.Identity is integral, dynamic, relational.Identity is recognition, the 'click', helpless ecstatic laughter.Identity is performance, acting out the stories of self, other, community, history.Identity is read, misread, projected, overwritten, rewritten, stolen, defaced, reclaimed, debunked, pronounced unreal, unreadable, unrepresented, invisibleFrida painted her identity, she painted her stories.Frida painted passionate mestiza queerness.She painted in readable symbols, she painted the personal as a gift, an offering, an ex voto to the universe that knows itself in consciousness.Frida painted poetry, social criticism, her thanks and kind wishes.She painted 'naturaleza VIVA' instead of naturaleza muerte.She lay in her bed painting, but when she taught, she took her students into the streets, into the countryside, to go in search of a vision decolonised.Frida painted revolution, nation, a Mexico coming into being from grief and longing for the 'pre-columbian' and acknowledgement of all its broken elements, all its mixed blood. She painted hope and truth and the beauty that pushes out from under whatever boot or wheel or falsehood crushes it and everywhere feeds the soul.Such was her genius that she could paint all this in her own incomparable face.The book is quite good too.
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