Image: Ana Mendieta, Untitled: Silueta Series. Gelatin silver print, 1978. https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/5221
Themes of Feminism, nature, the body, cultural influences, 'minimal spaces' or transitional spaces, combining elements from nature, human and animal bodies and human-made. Ephemeral works documented through images/ films. These operations/ works are executed through site-specific performance and site-specific sculpture-making.
I am interested in the amalgamation of ideas and making strategies in Mendieta's work. They are similar to the way I also work within a selected landscape, where materials, site, performance and video/photo documentation come together to make a part of a project. A body travels into a terrain and performs actions in relation to the landscape it is within, in effect making work that observes, highlights,critiques and interacts with sites in nature in a unique, unconventional way. There is a intent to gain something further from this interaction rather than just an ordinary encounter. There is a new light shed on the artist's experience of the site and the elements in the site. My work is much less obvious in themes of the body but it does this through using my contraptions as an extension of my body to conduct my way about the land.
"My art is grounded on the belief in one universal energy which runs through everything - from insect to man, from man to spectre, from spectre to plant, from plant to galaxy."
Image: Ana Mendieta, Volcano Series no. 2. Cuba, 1979, printed 1999 https://collections.lacma.org/node/203772
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