Performance, 2008
Artist Studio (Künstlerhof), Munich
This performance does not represent Frida Kahlo — it reopens her.
The iconic image is placed under pressure: the face remains composed, almost sacred, while the body dissolves into fragments, excess, and exposure. Dolls, flesh-like materials, and saturated color fields construct a space where identity is no longer stable, but continuously broken apart.
Referencing Kahlo’s body as a site of pain, projection, and self-construction, the work shifts from portrait to process. The body is not depicted — it is dismantled. What appears is not a biography, but a condition: of vulnerability, repetition, and persistence.
The performance unfolds between control and collapse. Ritual gestures echo care, but turn into acts of dissection. Beauty and violence coexist without resolution.
What remains is an open body.
Not healed.
Not closed.
Still becoming.
