Ana
Mendieta

Ana Mendieta was born in Havana (Cuba) in 1948 and died in 1985 in New York (United States). She is an artist whose short career has forever marked the history of art. After emigrating to the United States, Mendieta developed an original sculptural language, inspired by her research about origin myths and cave art, placing her work within the lineage of ancestral traditions and magic rituals. In her film production, she explored the relationships that her body maintained with nature, and the strong fusion that binds them, at the intersection between sculpture and performance. Amid the political effervescence of the 1970s, Ana Mendieta joined the A.I.R. Gallery, the first gallery managed by a collective of women artists in the United States, pioneer in feminist and decolonial thought, to which the artist contributed significantly.