Ana Mendieta died tragically in circumstances that still remain mysterious today. The gallery is presenting two works in Meridians, a photograph and a video produced several years before her death, which showcase certain aspects of her short but prolific existence. The photo, Sandwoman, is characteristic of her production in the last ten years of her life in which she endeavoured to establish a dialogue between her body and the natural landscape - to such an extent that she described her work, which was at the crossroads of land art and body art, as “earth-body” art. Mendieta ceaselessly inscribed the shape of her body into the earth, or buried it under sand, stones, long grasses and water, as if striving to take possession of those places through which she herself and others before her had passed. Her body of work represents an attempt to capture the passage of humankind to which nature bears witness.
1948 Born in Havana (Cuba)
The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC/Courtesy Galerie Lelong and Co. Licensed by ARS (New York.).
