Love Letter to #AnaMendieta
by Alex Santana, 19 Dec 2022
https://LatinxProject.nyu.edu/intervenxions/love-letter-to-ana-mendieta

The #art of #Mendieta (1948-1985) "… is radical because she encourages humans to bridge that estrangement between the natural world and modern living. One of her work’s most essential characteristics is proximity to and intimacy with the ground. In Burial Pyramid (1974), Mendieta’s body is covered almost entirely by large rocks“…

🔗 https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Mendieta
#feminist #performance #earth #Cuba #time & #timelessness 🐘

Archive: ‘Of course, there remain discursive means through which to locate solidarity without recourse to the universalizing gestures of relationality. In a recent essay by Hentyle Yapp, he discusses how the oscillation of temporalities present within works can destabilize relations while retaining a coherence in the iteration of violence and rage. Employing the rhizomatic modalities of Deleuze and Guattari, Yapp argues that “the dissipation of sense pushes us to develop a minoritarian ethic around expiration and return, difference and repetition. Rather than being purely ephemeral, difference exists alongside repetition.” If we are not spun from the same thread, we are perhaps duty bound to locate the knots, to work harder at making sense of flawed relations. ‘

Cite: Juliff, T, & Tierney, T. “They are always there': Mendieta, Vicuña and the coming again of ghosts” Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, 3, (4) pp. 35-48.

#latinamerica #latinx #arthistory #contemporaryart #mendieta

‎Gaizka Mendieta e Kirsty Gallacher co-ospiteranno gli SBC Awards 2022 nel maestoso Palau National di Barcellona‎ | JAMMA #‎gaizka #mendieta #kirsty #gallacher #co-ospiteranno #awards #maestoso #palau #national #barcellona‎ #jamma #1agosto https://parliamodi.news/article/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuamFtbWEudHYvZmllcmUvZ2FpemthLW1lbmRpZXRhLWUta2lyc3R5LWdhbGxhY2hlci1jby1vc3BpdGVyYW5uby1nbGktc2JjLWF3YXJkcy0yMDIyLW5lbC1tYWVzdG9zby1wYWxhdS1uYXRpb25hbC1kaS1iYXJjZWxsb25hLTI4ODYzOA==