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Photographs of Frida Kahlo’s bathroom in the exhibition by Graciela Iturbide at SFMOMA in San Diego
24 July 2026
"Graciela Iturbide: Between Two Worlds" features over 150 photographs from the 1960s to the 2010s, that highlights the rich cultural diversity of the artist's native Mexico.
Black-and-white photographer Graciela Iturbide's surreal world is open to the public through November 29 at SFMOMA. Through the artist's own poetic lens, decades of photographs reveal a magic realist world of custom and culture. The museum has been associated with Iturbide for many years. In 1990, SFMOMA hosted the first solo exhibition of Iturbide's photographs in the United States. With this retrospective, the museum completes the circle by showcasing the entire spectrum of her career.
“Graciela Iturbide’s photographs describe an array of life in Mexico that is so intimate and full of wonder that the viewer feels transported into a literary realm, like that of a vivid novel,” said Delphine Sims, SFMOMA’s assistant curator of photography.
Iturbide's collection of photographs of Frida Kahlo's bathroom at Casa Azul is one of the exhibition's main features. She was the first person to enter the room, which had been sealed for fifty years after Kahlo's death in 1954 at Diego Rivera's request. Before the items were cataloged, the artist was asked to inspect and record the room and its contents. The images showed the room in its original condition and provided a unique, close-up look at Kahlo's private life through items she owned and left behind.
El baño de Frida, Coyoacán, Ciudad de México (Frida’s Bathroom, Coyoacán, Mexico City), (2006), is a ghostly portrait of one of the corsets Kahlo wore to strengthen her body from the spinal injury caused by a bus accident. On a shelf in semi-darkness, the corset appears to be waiting for its owner to come back.
Taken from the article at the link below.
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