"Mar de lo invisible (Sea of the Unseen)" Opening Reception

Comments (0) By Wynter Holden Thursday, Apr 2 2009

Artist Frida Kahlo had serious body issues. No, we don’t mean the Sasquatch eyebrows and pencil ’stache -- though if her self-portraits are any indication, Frida definitely could’ve used some Nair. We’re talking deformed legs, a crooked spine, and dozens of broken bones from a bus accident. Ouch.

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Frida’s grandniece, Mexican photographer Cristina Kahlo, puts her own personal body obsessions on display in the new “Mar de lo invisible (Sea of the Unseen)” exhibit. “This series comes from a curiosity and desire to use x-ray images because they are, after all, photographs of the interior of the human body,” says Kahlo. The artist combines modern digital photography with x-rays, producing unexpected imagery that’s a subtle nod to the human body’s watery makeup. Angelfish swimming through shoulder joints. A red beta in a pelvis. The latter’s kinda freaky, but hey, at least Cristina didn’t use crabs.

(Pictured: Kahlo's Concha Nacarada de Caraco/Mother of Pearl Seashell.)
Thu., April 2, 7-9 p.m., 2009