Ana Mendieta & Michelle Stuart
in ‘A Body Measured Against the Earth’, MCA Chicago
21 August 2018 – 7 April 2019
Ana Mendieta, Untitled from the Silueta series, 1973–77. Courtesy: © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection
Ana Mendieta and Michelle Stuart are included in ‘A Body Measured Against the Earth’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
The artists in this exhibition stage encounters between the earth and the body – the primary tool at their disposal – to understand the land and their relationship to it. Ranging from physical interventions in the ground to conceptual documentations of travel and labor, their divergent practices reject a totalizing or objective view of the landscape, instead favoring embodied investigations of specific places, histories, and ideals. In the process, the artists recognise land “not as scenery, but as the spaces and systems we inhabit, a system our own lives depend upon.”