Step into a kaleidoscopic dreamworld and face your dreams head on with Body Rock, Johnny Romeo’s mind-bending homage to the legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. In the painting, Romeo ingeniously fuses Nikolas Murray’s iconic 1939 photographic bust portrait of Frida Kahlo with the artist’s own emotionally raw double portrait ‘The Two Fridas’ (1939). Instead of two figures holding hands, Romeo explores the emotionally raw duality of Frida Kahlo by portraying the artist’s first face peeled off and hovering in the ether, while her second face remains concealed underneath. Playing on the visual and psychological tension of Surrealism, the painting combines unsettling imagery and highly saturated, hallucinatory colours to transform Frida Kahlo’s fierce self-mythology into a Surrealist Pop fever dream. In a stroke of art revisionist genius, Body Rock imagines a new kind of self-portrait where Romeo explores how Frida Kahlo would have painted herself had she discovered Pop Art. Rich in symbolism and emotional depth, Romeo’s disconcerting rendition of Kahlo captures her in a state of psychological metamorphosis as her mask peels away, forcing her to face the trembling truth of her own being head on. Dreams are often a vehicle for escapism and flights of fancy, but in Body Rock they are a stark interior landscape where we stare into of our own psyche and confront our innermost fears, doubts and aspirations, as captured in the word assemblage ‘Face Dreams’. As one of the world’s most storied artists, Frida Kahlo lived a tumultuous life marked by heartbreak, illness and relentless creativity. With the title Body Rock, Romeo humorously builds on this idea, envisioning a Frida whose body has been so ‘rocked’ by pain and health problems that her face has literally fallen off. Blurring the line between portrait and apparition, Body Rock is a powerful reminder that sometimes our most vivid dreams are the ones that shake us to the core.