Ana Mendieta - Works
“Mendieta certainly has an art that has many images of female identity. This is very strong in her work and is a continual theme from the beginning until the end. She had an ambivalent relationship to feminism…she was an activist for women of color. One of her conflicts with feminism as it was expressed in the 70s in New York was that it was not inclusive enough, nor speaking to her specific needs.”
“When we speak of feminism, it’s important to know that anytime a woman, especially a beautiful woman uses her body and distorts it, it is, in essence, a political act. So often women are the subject of the male gaze, all over art history. That’s what we see – women as object – and here, Mendieta like many women of her generation are transposing that relationship to make women a subject of her own gaze and therefore of our gaze and that it’s a very empowering step.”
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