“Frida Kahlo – Her Photos” Exhibition

The “Frida Kahlo – Her Photos” exhibition is presented for the first time in Porto, at the Portuguese Photography Center.

Inaugurated on July 5, becoming public until November 4.

“Frida Kahlo – Her Photos” has 241 images distributed in three rooms curated by photographer and historian of photography in Mexico, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio.

Since its first presentation in Mexico City in 2009, the exhibition has traveled around the world, with more than half a million visitors in fifteen different cities.

Passionate about photography, she collected more than six thousand photographs. When she died in 1954, the husband and artist Diego Rivera donated to the Mexican people the house where the couple lived in Mexico City to be transformed into a museum about the life and work of Frida.

“Frida Kahlo – Her Photos” is an itinerant exhibition, designed for the international public, whose first presentation dates back to 2009 at the Frida Khalo Museum itself. It has traveled in European countries like Poland or Germany and has been, for example, in the USA, Brazil and New Zealand. He also went through Lisbon between November 2011 and January 2012, at the City Museum, with the support of the Casa de América Latina.

It is divided into six themes: “The Origins”; “The Blue House”; “Politics, Revolutions and Diego”; “The Injured Body”; “The Lovers”; and “Photography” displayed on the ground floor of the Portuguese Center of Photography (the former Chain of Relation of Porto). In three of them are the photographs, in a fourth is a documentary film of about 50 minutes with the history of the artist.

The price of the ticket is eight euros for the general public and six euros for students. There are special prices for children, families and groups. Part of the revenue raised will benefit Salvador Association, which promotes the integration of people with motor disabilities.

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