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Ana Mendieta

Overview

Mendieta's work was greatly informed by the part of her identity that was embedded in the term "immigrant". She's widely known for her performance art piece and exhibition Traces . Her immigration from Cuba to the USA was full of displacement and separation from her homeland and many of her family members for a long period of time. This inspired her future work to explore the aspects of belonging, estrangement, feminism, life, death, violence and overall the rawness of the natural of femininity and the earth. Her fascinations with natures elements: water, fire, earth, air and the flesh were interwoven into her performance art work. She was a huge part of the body art movement which was it's own form that grew as a branch off from the trunk of performance art. Furthermore, she was seen as a huge contributor to the land art movement which she often paired with her body art to create her feminist and identity messages in her performance art pieces. Her untimely death at 36 years old left audiences hurting for more, but some of her pieces still stand in art studios today such as Alison Jacques Gallery and are incorporated in conversations about feminist and immigrant artwork.

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