Ana Mendieta
Silueta (image from Yagul)
color photograph
1973
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Ana Mendieta
untitled (Death of a Chicken)
photographs from performance
1972
Naked Woman: Being the Image + Making the Image
How different it can be if the human condition is visualized by the eyes and the
feelings and the body of a woman.
In Ana Mendieta's work you feel so clearly that the content, the vision of art and life belongs to a woman, while at the same time her powerful performances, photographs and land art transcend into an experience that goes far beyond being a woman.
The unconditional surrender to trauma, pain and anger as the incendiary force to expose the human condition made a deep impression on me.
I had just graduated from the academy when I discovered Mendieta at a major solo show of her work in Barcelona. Although she used a different medium than painting, that medium I was madly in love with, I saw in her for the first time an artist with whom I felt real affinity.
The artist Ana Mendieta turns being a woman into a subversive power; a positive, transformative force, demanding visibility and shriveling the paradigms of the modernist art-historical canon.
Aline Thomassen, 2022
Aline Thomassen
untitled
2014
watercolour on paper
249 cm x 154 cm
collection Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht
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