Performed Invisibility: Ana Mendieta’s 'Siluetas'
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Performed Invisibility: Ana Mendieta’s 'Siluetas'
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.
Nil Yalter le métier d’immigrant
Raeda Saadeh Vaccum
re.act.feminism archive de performance féministe.
In Bodies In Dissent (2021), Essi’s camera traces how performance histories migrate across time and preserve evidence of our lives.
How we carry the past “within ourselves, across generations, across histories, and across the Atlantic”
Blurb from the MoMA
Reflexões pessoais da obra da Ana:
-para mim, ela aborda muito a necessidade da mulher se moldar
-aborda também a importância política de ocuparmos o espaço público e coabitar com a natureza, sendo que muitas vezes é ela que toma conta do corpo
-silueta sangrienta remete-me ao sangue menstrual e à ligação deste com a terra (matéria e espaço)
-aborda
... See moreAs its title suggests, Unnamed Figures not only illuminates Black appearances in the visual culture of this period but also asks how our encounters with them are shaped by the erasure of Blackness from art and archives.