Confined Weathers: Graciela Iturbide and Mario Bellatin’s  <i>The Bathroom of Frida Kahlo/Demerol without Expiration Date</i>

Cabrera, Delfina

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Delfina Cabrera

Confined Weathers

Graciela Iturbide and Mario Bellatin’s The Bathroom of Frida Kahlo/Demerol without Expiration Date

In: Weathering: Ecologies of Exposure, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer, Cultural Inquiry, 17 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2020), pp. 295–309

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What is the effect of weathering in a confined space? What if this space is the bathroom of the famous Mexican painter Frida Kahlo? Writer Mario Bellatin and photographer Graciela Iturbide venture into this once intimate room and through a series of artistic interventions breathe new life into it. The logic of the archive is their guiding principle: in order to preserve what has been locked away and stored, it must be exposed and put to new uses.

Part of Weathering Containing:
Preface / Arnd Wedemeyer, Christoph F. E. Holzhey
Weathering Ambivalences / Christoph F. E. Holzhey
Radiating Exposures / Alison Sperling
Weathering the Afterlife / Nicolò Crisafi, Manuele Gragnolati
Scaling from Weather to Climate / Daniel Liu
Enduring Ornament / Amelia Groom, M. Ty
The Weathering of the Trace / Damiano Sacco
Glaze / Umut Yıldırım
Weathering Weather / Yolanda Ariadne Collins
‘Locked out in nature’ / Anja Sunhyun Michaelsen
On Bad Weather / Facundo Vega
Representing the World, Weathering its End / Marlon Miguel
Enduring Rain / Claudia Peppel
Life Never Stops Being Violent / Vajiko Chachkhiani, Claudia Peppel
Confined Weathers

Title	Confined Weathers
Subtitle	Graciela Iturbide and Mario Bellatin’s The Bathroom of Frida Kahlo/Demerol without Expiration Date
Author(s)	Delfina Cabrera
Identifier	https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-17_15
DOI Target	https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-17/cabrera_confined-weathers.html
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Description	What is the effect of weathering in a confined space? What if this space is the bathroom of the famous Mexican painter Frida Kahlo? Writer Mario Bellatin and photographer Graciela Iturbide venture into this once intimate room and through a series of artistic interventions breathe new life into it. The logic of the archive is their guiding principle: in order to preserve what has been locked away and stored, it must be exposed and put to new uses.
Is Part Of	Weathering
Place	Berlin
Publisher	ICI Berlin Press
Date	2020
Subject	Bellatin, Mario Iturbide, Graciela Kahlo, Frida Rivera, Diego confined weathers bathroom archive exposure claustrophilia
Rights	© by the author Except for images or otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Harvested	yes
Language	en-GB
short title	Confined Weathers
page start	295
page end	309
Source	Weathering: Ecologies of Exposure, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer, Cultural Inquiry, 17 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2020), pp. 295–309
Bibliographic Citation	Delfina Cabrera, ‘Confined Weathers: Graciela Iturbide and Mario Bellatin’s The Bathroom of Frida Kahlo/Demerol without Expiration Date’, in Weathering: Ecologies of Exposure, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer, Cultural Inquiry, 17 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2020), pp. 295–309 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-17_15>
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