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Spatializing Frida Kahlo's Portraits

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From this inspiring session of Anuradha in workshop days, I began to think of spatializing Frida Kahlo’s self portraits. As a practitioner, Frida is one of my favorite artists who is very dynamic in nature. And for me the interesting part was – how she spatialized her pain and love through paintings. So I was thinking how I can give a physical form to those emotions and as an artist how I can incorporate my subjective understandings of those emotions through another form. Hence I decided to work on her 5 famous self portraits which could tell us enough of her.
And here I am trying to give customized interior forms to the space. In the context of artist and space, for me I just need a room sometimes to be myself. Through this project I am trying to spatialize Frida Kahlo’s self portraits with a very subjective interpretation, through this I am also looking at alternative ways of spatial understanding taking Frida as a medium.  
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The Broken Column 1944spatial ideation - The Broken Column is itself a painting where Frida bound into a space during her surgery time. Her body and the space she occupied bounded to each other and the pain is also moving around the space. I am considering the painting as a small room which has 9 windows and no doors. 

Memory, the Heart 1937
Spatial ideation - Wall painted with geometric shapes and walls colors are converging blue to white as she expanding to herself, so I decided to make the roof open, and it have an open window with the same texture of the wall. These blue textured walls depicting the shell of her as she portrayed the costumes hanged. 

Frida and Diego Rivera, 1931
Spatial ideation - I am making the room as a cylindrical space with painted walls which depict Frida’s love to Diego. And the cylindrical space is a representing a universe which she expanded on Diego. This aura of love where always been there in her for Diego. 

Paradise  Monkeys 1943
Spatial ideation - A white room with a single window, plants are growing into the window as the emotions covering her.

Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair 1940
Spatial ideation - A chair with four different colors which depicts two identities which Frida holding in her self portrait.
One is herself and another is her beloved Diego within her. 


 

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