Adrienne Rivera, Duality, 2024
1. “ Her ethnic ensembles, famously inspired by Oaxaca’s Tehuana, a matriarchal society, dismissed de rigueur looks dictated by Parisian designers and the soulless mass production of clothing. Vogue magazine took notice. Kahlo championed her homeland’s indigenous customs in wearing huipiles (woven tunics), rebozos (shawls) and flouncy, long skirts. They also drew attention away from her polio-ravaged right leg and body casts from several operations after her near-fatal bus accident. She frequently referred to herself as the great concealer.
- The ways that Kahlo always goes back to her traditions, even far and deep ancestral customs, in representing who she is today. However, still at times acknowledging and having to choose between this new and old self as she experiences these drastic, life-altering changes within her life.
2. “Kahlo suffered extensively for much of her life, and the most moving section of the show is devoted to her ecosystem of medical devices. But Kahlo did not conceal her pain, revealing her casts and leather braces with metal buckles in her work and turning her plaster corsets into art with elaborate designs of flowers, even a hammer and sickle. “She treated these second skins as canvases,” Ms. Small said.”
- Again, I enjoy that she found a way to connect her future self with her past self. Mixing mechanical objects with organic material within her pieces. To me, it represents a transcendence over her challenges in life.
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