Title

Fashion Culture: Curating Frida Kahlo: Fashion & Prosthetics

Contributor Names

Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.). Museum

Henestrosa, Circe

Melendez-Escalante, Tanya

Date

2021-03-11

Description

Circe Henestrosa is the head of the School of Fashion at LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore. She discusses the way exhibition spaces can create new visual languages capable of breaking boundaries of visibility and invisibility traditionally associated with disabled bodies. In her conversation with Tanya Melendez-Escalante, senior curator of education and public programs at The Museum at FIT, they question the divide that exists between the Us and Them, and what we assume to be the able-minded, the able-bodied, and the disabled. At the Frida Kahlo Museum in Mexico, Henestrosa curated the exhibition "Appearances Can Be Deceiving: The Dresses of Frida Kahlo," and cocurated the blockbuster exhibition "Frida Kahlo Making Her Self Up" at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

Type

Moving Image

Subject

Kahlo, Frida

People with disabilities

Clothing

Self-help devices for people with disabilities

Prosthesis

Mexico

Twentieth century

Rights

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Identifier

FIT Repository ID: aod_000444