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Reclaiming the artist Ana Mendieta as a formally innovative maker of performative art who forged connections to the marginalized around the world.
The artist Ana Mendieta (19481985) is remembered as the creator of powerful works expressing a vibrant and unflinching second-wave feminist sensibility. In Radical Virtuosity, art historian Genevieve Hyacinthe offers a new view of Mendieta, connecting her innovative artwork to the art, cultural aesthetics and concerns, feminisms, and sociopolitical messages of the black Atlantic.
Mendieta left Cuba as a preteen, fleeing the Castro regime, and spent years in U.S. foster care. Her sense of exile, Hyacinthe argues, colors her work. Hyacinthe examines the development of Mendieta''s performative artworksparticularly the Silueta series (19731985), which documented the silhouette of her body in the earth over time (a series without end, Mendieta said)and argues that these works were shaped by Mendieta''s appropriation and reimagining of Afro-Cuban ritual. Mendieta''s effort to create works that invited audience participation, Hyacinthe says, signals her interest in forging connections with the marginalized, particularly those of the black Atlantic and Global South. Hyacinthe describes the counter entropy of Mendieta''s small-scale earthworks (contrasting them with more massive works created by Robert Smithson and other male artists); considers the resonance of Mendieta''s work with the contemporary practices of black Atlantic female artists including Wangechi Mutu, Renee Green, and Damali Abrams; and connects Mendieta''s artistic and political expressions to black Atlantic feminisms of such popular artists as Princess Nokia.
Mendieta''s life and work are often overshadowed in popular perception by her early and tragic deathat thirty-six, she plunged from the window of the thirty-fourth floor Greenwich Village apartment she shared with her husband, the artist Carl Andre. (Andre was charged with her murder and acquitted.) Hyacinthe''s accountprofusely illustrated, with many images in colorreclaims Mendieta''s work and legacy for its artistic significance.
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