Celebrating the life and tenacity of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo at ArtScience Museum

Frida's Universe at the Frida Kahlo: The Life Of An Icon exhibition is an interactive installation where images react to visitors' movements. ST PHOTO: AZMI ATHNI
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SINGAPORE – X-rays and interviews with medical experts are not usual fodder for an art exhibition. But medical paraphernalia and information are at the heart of Laid Bare: Frida’s Inner World, which opens at the ArtScience Museum on May 4. 

On display are original documents such as an X-ray of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo’s spine, medical records of her surgeries and photographs of the American British Cowdray Hospital in Mexico City, where she was treated until her death in 1954. 

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