{"id":529,"date":"2025-02-17T14:42:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T13:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vivafridakahlo.se\/?page_id=529"},"modified":"2025-03-12T08:47:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T07:47:00","slug":"voiceover","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vivafridakahlo.se\/en\/voiceover\/","title":{"rendered":"Voiceover"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-m6jrny6o-5115544b5ffc72321cfaf72662a9c8cb\">\n.avia-section.av-m6jrny6o-5115544b5ffc72321cfaf72662a9c8cb{\nbackground-repeat:no-repeat;\nbackground-image:url(https:\/\/vivafridakahlo.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/specialheadernotext.jpg);\nbackground-position:50% 50%;\nbackground-attachment:scroll;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-m6jrny6o-5115544b5ffc72321cfaf72662a9c8cb main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-first  avia-full-stretch 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itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"section--image-text--text text-type-formatted col-md-6\">\n<h2>EXHIBITION VIVA FRIDA KAHLO<\/h2>\n<h4>FRIDA<\/h4>\n<p>I want to tell you that I\u2019ve behaved well.<br \/>\nThat I haven\u2019t had any affairs or amusements or lovers or anything like that.<br \/>\nThat I love Mexico as never before.<br \/>\nAtt jag avgudar Diego, mer \u00e4n mitt eget liv och att jag h\u00e5ller p\u00e5 att bli en seri\u00f6s person.<\/p>\n<p><em>Frida Kahlo<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='hr av-fk72p-36cb8a669f26c39f613dfe1a8255c75e hr-default  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock'><span class='hr-inner'><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-m793ykd4-15c99856068af0940a49113b350ee9f9'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"section--image-text--text text-type-formatted col-md-6\">\n<h2>CHILDHOOD 1907-1925<\/h2>\n<h4>FRIDA<\/h4>\n<p>I was born in Coyoacan, outside Mexico City in a blue house. I was the third of four sisters. Christina, Cristi , the \u2018chubby one\u2019 was the youngest, and my best friend.<\/p>\n<p>Mi mama, Matilda Calderon was a beautiful bell from Oaxaca with enormous dark eyes and full lips. She did not know how to read or write. And she was not in love with my father. She was hysterical with dissatisfaction and expressed it through religion. She made us go to church every day and pray before every meal.<\/p>\n<p>Mi Papa \u2018Mr. Kahlo\u2019 was a photographer and very interesting.  Many evenings he would arrive home from Mexico City and play Strauss on his piano. He would read Goethe or Schiller and whisper to me, \u2018Frieda, Dear Frieda \u2013 you are the most intelligent of my daughters \u2013 and so\u2026most like me\u2019. I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.<\/p>\n<p>For ten long years, the Mexican revolution raged against centuries of oppression. Wounded and hungry fighters jumped through the windows into our living room. The bullets screeched past. I can still hear their extraordinary sound.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='hr av-7p615-04ce548fb76b6d9eb912408cdb31ef4c hr-default  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock'><span class='hr-inner'><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-m793zk4i-36ba6fb29c1b49b984e82698754458f1'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"section--image-text--text text-type-formatted col-md-6\">\n<h2>BUS RIDE<\/h2>\n<h4>FRIDA<\/h4>\n<p>It was a strange collision. It was not violent but rather silent, slow and it harmed everybody. But me most of all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='hr av-j2zw1-749b8e6d50d10fc48b776d5e5d40f53c hr-default  avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock'><span class='hr-inner'><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-m79414oc-385d19582b033e671adde09979e6ddb5'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"section--image-text--text text-type-formatted col-md-6\">\n<h2>BIRTH OF AN ARTIST 1926<\/h2>\n<h4>FRIDA<\/h4>\n<p>Now I live on a planet of pain, transparent as ice. I became old in an instant and everything today is bland and lucid. I know that nothing lies behind. If there was something I would see it.<\/p>\n<p>My father had a box of oil colours and some paint brushes. My mother asked a Carpenter to make a special easel, because I couldn\u2019t sit up. Without paying much attention, I began to paint.<\/p>\n<h4>SELF-PORTRAIT IN A VELVET DRESS 1929<\/h4>\n<p>This is my first self-portrait and I painted myself with a very marked unibrow. In reality I didn\u2019t have such a strong feature, but I wanted to add a detail which would make me stand out from any other girls Alejandro would meet. I was 19 and alone most of the time. I wanted to impress and seduce Alejandro. On the back I wrote in German \u2039Heute ist immer noch\u203a.<\/p>\n<h4>FRIDA<\/h4>\n<p>I think I am getting better. I want to believe it.  After two years on this painful planet, I begin to walk again! I tease and laugh at death he will never get the better of me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='hr av-h2gs1-731567c6ad7b5259ff822ebdd9992702 hr-default  avia-builder-el-10  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock'><span class='hr-inner'><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-m794mph7-031041ca99bd8a957f737f3fe7dbea15'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"section--image-text--text text-type-formatted col-md-6\">\n<h2>PALACIO NACIONAL<\/h2>\n<h4>FRIDA<\/h4>\n<p>I was going to be free! \u2013 And so was my country! Mexico had emerged from the revolution and was the centre of MODERNITY. At the heart of the movement was the World-famous painter, Diego Rivera. A great libertarian. A great communist. A great man. I marched in protest demonstrations and joined the communist party.<\/p>\n<p>There was a great outburst of creativity in painting, in films,  in literature, in thought philosophy. In every single aspect of life. And I was dancing in the centre of this vortex. We were going to express ourselves freely. We\u2019re going to speak freely. We\u2019re going to love freely.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='hr av-11brep-f5a394cf87f9fd5eef6913d398d7aa4e hr-default  avia-builder-el-12  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock'><span class='hr-inner'><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-m794py0v-2da59bec39d245768864e162f1443ece'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"section--image-text--text text-type-formatted col-md-6\">\n<h2>DIEGO<\/h2>\n<h4>FRIDA<\/h4>\n<p>I met Diego in a time when people carried pistols and went around shooting the street lamps. During the night, they broke them all and went about spraying bullets, just for fun. Diego shot a gramophone. And in spite of my fear I became very interested in him.<\/p>\n<p>I arranged everything in the court of Coyoacan. I asked the maid for skirts, a blouse and a rebozo so I could be married in a traditional Mexican dress. Which Diego loved.<\/p>\n<p>My mother did NOT like the marriage, because Diego was a communist and because she said he was like a fat, fat pig. Mama said: it is the marriage between an elephant and a dove.<\/p>\n<p>His enormous belly, drawn tight and smooth as a sphere, rest upon his strong legs, beautiful columns, that end in large feet, pointing outward, as if to embrace all the world and to support himself invincibly on the earth. I believe he is an example of future humanity, distant from us by two or three thousand years.<\/p>\n<p>We had been married less than a year when he had his first affair. Fidelity was out of the question for him.<\/p>\n<p>I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='hr av-8daux-67795bfc8fd474a08ff32748589df1a9 hr-default  avia-builder-el-14  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock'><span class='hr-inner'><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-m794vd7i-903a4148075d0d6af4d9c1fd9a9053cb'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"section--image-text--text text-type-formatted col-md-6\">\n<h2>LIFE 1930-1939<\/h2>\n<h4>FRIDA<\/h4>\n<p>\u2018Gringolandia\u2019. We were on our way to San Francisco, the \u2018City of the World\u2019. A union of Lions. The City and Bay are wonderful. I don\u2019t like the gringos at all. They\u2019re very boring and they have faces like unbaked bread.<\/p>\n<p>I spent most of my time making portraits of friends but I have only managed to sell a few of my paintings.<\/p>\n<p>Leo my Doctorcito, here in Detroit I do not eat at all. Well, I no longer have any appetite with this troublesome pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>On a hot July night I had my second miscarriage. I stayed for almost two devastating weeks in that Hospital. Then I started to sketch my ideas for this painting. I am naked crying in a pool of blood. Painting has now become my therapy, my way to hide and show my secrets at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>This picture is called: my birth. The mother\u2019s head is covered with the white veil because, coincidentally, with the painting of the picture my mother died in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>I am dreaming about my return to Mexico. We had been in America for three years, but my heart was always in Mexico.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>We both had many affairs, even shared our lovers. But this time Diego murdered my life. He had an affair with my sister, Cristi. She is the sister I love the most. You can\u2019t imagine how much I hate and I disgust myself. I have wasted my best years dedicated to doing only what would benefit Diego. I have never done anything for myself!<\/p>\n<p>I have left the house in San Angel. And for the first time I am living alone. In my own apartment. I drink a lot. I try to drown my sorrows. My current view of life? Make love, take a bath and make love again!<\/p>\n<p>They thought I was a surrealist, but I wasn\u2019t. I never painted dreams. I paint my own reality.<\/p>\n<div class=\"section--image-text--text text-type-formatted col-md-6\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='hr av-vy7td-9a8e2e57a42fc116b57e1fe03b212fe8 hr-default  avia-builder-el-16  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock'><span class='hr-inner'><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-m794x89n-da9646e2d6dbb15946cbd11f0be3290b'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"section--image-text--text text-type-formatted col-md-6\">\n<h2>THE TWO FRIDAS 1939<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<h4>FRIDA<\/h4>\n<p>Diego filed for divorce. I could only paint to express my pain. When the divorce papers arrived to be signed, I finished \u201cThe Two Fridas\u201d. On the right, the Frida loved by Diego, this is me, the Mexican Frida in a Tehuana dress. In my hand I hold a miniature of Diego at four years of age. On the left, it is me again, the European Frida in a lacy white wedding dress. The European Frida\u2019s heart is broken while the Mexican Frida\u2019s heart is whole. She is bleeding, I try to stop the flow of blood, but it keeps dripping. At the end, the blood drops turn into red flowers on my skirt. This is also the way I lived my life; I turned pain into beauty, and by doing so, I gave meaning to my pain.<\/p>\n<div class=\"section--image-text--text text-type-formatted col-md-6\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='hr av-tpiq1-db0657fe98b7baca559448754c13f286 hr-default  avia-builder-el-18  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock'><span class='hr-inner'><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-m7950mwy-0a0b8e04327b48c30558b46927ffb6e3'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"section--image-text--text text-type-formatted col-md-6\">\n<h2>LIFE 1940-1952<\/h2>\n<h4>FRIDA<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>In Mexico we say it is a blessing to be born and die in the same home. I married Diego a second time. And we lived again in Casa Azul.<\/p>\n<p>The remarriage functions well. But I do not say Diego is my husband because it would be ridiculous. Diego has never been. And never will be anyone\u2019s husband.<\/p>\n<p>If I were better health wise, one could say that I am happy. But this thing of feeling such a wreck from head to toe sometimes upsets my brain and makes me have bitter moments.<\/p>\n<p>All the doctors in Mexico thought I had to have an operation on my spine. Three months I was lying in bed with a plaster corset and an awful apparatus on my chin, which made me suffer like hell. I was sure I was going to die.<\/p>\n<p>They amputated my leg 6 months ago It seemed to me like centuries of torture and at times I nearly went crazy. I still feel like committing suicide. Diego prevents me from doing it in the vain belief that maybe he will need me. I\u2019ll wait a while.<\/p>\n<p>Everything is all and one. And everything exists and moves under only one law: Life.<\/p>\n<div class=\"section--image-text--text text-type-formatted col-md-6\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='hr av-k9a9l-ef23b73ff1ce809340577aec93f71016 hr-default  avia-builder-el-20  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock'><span class='hr-inner'><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-m7952plq-ca2b8a7e49ba2ad87ec8b9f214f1d7fb'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"section--image-text--text text-type-formatted col-md-6\">\n<h2>THE WOUNDED DEER 1946<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<h4>FRIDA<\/h4>\n<p>The hope to recover has faded away, and I painted myself as a young deer wounded by arrows. Pierced by arrows and bleeding, I \u2013 the deer \u2013 stare at you in the middle of a dead forest. I am slowly coming to terms with the fact that I will not recover. That this is my destiny.<\/p>\n<div class=\"section--image-text--text text-type-formatted col-md-6\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='hr av-fchap-05386dbaae45e3babe6932ce372d11b7 hr-default  avia-builder-el-22  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock'><span class='hr-inner'><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-m7954hzp-70f5b7ce1adf770250c7e8abf2f7c3e9'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"section--image-text--text text-type-formatted col-md-6\">\n<h2>EXHIBITION 1953 &amp; DEATH<\/h2>\n<h4>FRIDA<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>With friendship and love<br \/>\nBorn from my heart<br \/>\nI have the pleasure of inviting you<br \/>\nto my humble exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>All I want is for you to tell me<br \/>\nyour good and sincere opinion.<br \/>\nYou are a learned person.<br \/>\nYour knowledge is first class.<\/p>\n<p>These paintings<br \/>\nI painted with my own hands<br \/>\nand they wait on the walls<br \/>\nto give pleasure to my brothers.<\/p>\n<p>With true friendship.<br \/>\nI thank you for this with all my heart.<\/p>\n<p><em>Frida Kahlo de Rivera<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"section--image-text--text text-type-formatted col-md-6\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='hr av-bslwh-2ccd70d7482d25e3e485f097d24f73c6 hr-default  avia-builder-el-24  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock'><span class='hr-inner'><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-m7955gop-cc6b531bb9f386a0551a2b2a555637af'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"section--image-text--text text-type-formatted col-md-6\">\n<h2>ICON<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<h4>FRIDA<\/h4>\n<p>I used to think I was the strangest person in the World but then, there are so many people in the World there must be someone just like me, who feels so bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her and imagine she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and hear this, know that it is true. 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