Performed Invisibility: Ana Mendieta’s 'Siluetas'
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Performed Invisibility: Ana Mendieta’s 'Siluetas'
Mendieta fala da sua “dor de exílio” e de pertencer a lugar nenhum. As Siluetas são tentativas de se reinscrever no mundo.
"Ana Mendieta was an interdisciplinary artist, referring to herself as a sculptor. She is best known for her earth/body works, most specifically her now iconic Silueta Series, in which she used her body, and later the absence of the body, in the landscape as a way of connecting with nature and the universe. Spanning a period of 15 years, Mendieta
... See moreExiled from Cuba at a young age, Mendieta said that she was “overwhelmed by the feeling of having been cast from the womb (nature).” Seeking a way to, in her words, “return to the maternal source,” she used her body to commune with sand, ice, and mud, among other natural media, as a way to “become one with the earth.”
This Artwork Changed My Life: Ana Mendieta’s “Silueta” Series
Her body was the subject and object of the work. She used it to emphasise the societal conditions by which the female body is colonised as the object of male desire and ravaged under masculine aggression
Kaira Cabañas
“Ana Mendieta: Pain of Cuba, Body I Am” from Woman’s Art Journal 20 (1): pp 12–17, 1999.
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