Anfitrite e il figlioletto Tritone — Tribute to Frida Kahlo

Anfitrite e il figlioletto Tritone — Tribute to Frida Kahlo is part of the Silent Icons series, which reinterprets the visual grammar of Western sacred iconography through contemporary cultural figures from fashion, cinema, and mythology. The painting weaves together two mythological identities. Amphitrite — goddess of the seas in Greek mythology, bride of Poseidon and mother of Triton — lends the composition its oceanic tenderness: a mother holding her child, surrounded by the symbols of the deep. Into this figure, Frida Kahlo is reborn. Frida's orthopedic corset becomes a warrior's breastplate: the armor of a paladin of the weak, the wounded, the defiant. Around her, the rich iconography of her Mexican homeland unfolds — Aztec symbols, vivid tiles, creatures of her tierra. In Frida, fragility and strength were never opposites. They were the same thing. Oil on canvas and silver leaf, 70 × 90 cm.