Ana Mendieta

i also made a video essay about her in more extensive detail on my Youtube channel: Shannon Kim so go check it out if u find this interesting!!!!! i spent a lot of time on it lol◝(ᵔᵕᵔ)◜ 

Ana Mendieta has become a symbol of the sexism and seedy injustices of the art world—and the groundbreaking nature of her work is frequently overshadowed by that history. Fusing art and life, Mendieta took risks, experimenting with performance and other unconventional mediums at a time when the market had no interest in them. 

Her “earth-body” artworks famously used the natural world and her own body as powerful mediums of expression, interrogating humanity's relationship to the land and the cosmos. By placing the female body—the outline of her body—back into the elements of earth, she utilized the emerging feminist theories of binding the personal to the political.

“My art is the way I re-establish the bonds that unite me to the universe.”