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This new exhibition reframes the legacy of artist Ana Mendieta

October 04, 2019 Clara Hernanz, DMT.NEWS, DmtDaily, Khareem Sudlow

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Ana Mendieta was a prolific artist in the 70s and 80s: she made performances, documented gender issues through photographs and film, created sculptures using her own body and nature. Yet in her lifetime, the artist resisted labels, claiming that she was neither a performance artist nor a land artist, not even a feminist if the term referred to the mainstream movement of white middle-class women.

Still, Mendieta’s pioneering art was overshadowed, bothhellip;