“I’ve been coming to this house since. . . I believe Frida wasn’t even famous,” said Iturbide in an interview with Museo Frida Kahlo. “I loved to come here to the garden with my children and visit and read the diary that was there. So, for me it was really a privilege to touch these objects, to touch them with my eyes, and to reinterpret them in the same bathroom.”
Over the course of her life, Kahlo endured over 30 surgeries, and long periods of bedrest. Consequently, many of these personal items are medical aids like the ones on this table.
“When I photographed all this,” said Iturbide, “it was very unconscious. Later on, I realized that these were objects of suffering, because there was the Demerol, there were her crutches…”
- Graciela Iturbide, What Frida Kahlo kept in her Bathroom, Getty