Una new exhibition that will be open to the public until August 7 at the MSU Broad Museum in Michigan shows a appearance less known of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo: the medical viacrucis to which she was subjected and your support network in the face of this.
Kahlo without Borders, name of the exhibition, was curated by the artist Cristina Kahlo, great-niece of the famous Mexican painter; Javier Roque Vázquez Juárez, and Mónica Ramírez-Montagut, executive director of MSU Broad.
The exhibition aims to connect intimately visitors with the creative world of Frida Kahlo through images and documents that have never before been seen publicly.
It turns out that Ramírez-Montagut visited her parents in Mexico when her need arose to see who was doing something new about Frida and that's how she found out that Cristina Kahlo had been trying to access her great-aunt's medical records for nearly four years.
Viewing them through a microfiche monitor with light streaming in, she could well imagine that they could be displayed with minimalists, but functional light boxes.
Thus, the exhibition seeks to be perceived as a journey through time through a kind of family album of memories: an intimate and personal look at an intimate and vulnerable moment in the life of Frida Kahlo.
The exhibition reveals the harsh and painful reality that Frida faced every day, because after having undergone 32 surgeries she suffered from pain chronic in her last days while hospitalized at the ABC Hospital in Mexico City.
The documents that can be seen in this exhibition show the courage with which Frida Kahlo simultaneously faced a health, financial and marital crisis.
Today, more than ever due to a pandemic that is not yet over, Kahlo without Borders is an exhibition full of inspiration and resilience that places special emphasis on the support network that we all have and that is why it is so significant.
Admission to the museum is free, as is the exhibition, which will be open until August 7, 2022, but online reservations are required in advance, so if you are interested here we leave you the link where you can do it.