Literary start: the unclassifiable ones that clash

In her first graphic novel,

What Frida gave me

(Zulma), the Venezuelan artist Rosa Maria Unda Souki wonders about what led her for five years to be inspired by the life of Frida Kahlo, who 'she illustrated.

We find her in the heat of summer 2019, in full preparation for her exhibition.

She has mountains of questions in her suitcases.

What should she write in her blurb?

The simplistic pencil illustrations respond to the angst of the blank sheet.

This search for inspiration is a pretext for remembering.

Through the words, she reconnects with an intimate Frida and offers a personal journey to the heart of creation and memory.

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Memory is what is at the heart of

Queenie

(Anne Carrière).

This gangster from the prohibition years, seen in

Coppola's

Cotton Club

, is reborn in an ambitious graphic novel, born from the project of the artist Elizabeth Colomba, specializing in postcolonial art, and Aurélie Lévy, director and documentary maker.

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