Ana Mendieta
in ‘The Earth, That Is Sufficient’, Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York
15 July – 1 September 2021
‘The Earth, That Is Sufficient’, 2021, exhibition view, Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York. Courtesy: Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York © The Estate of Ana Mendieta LLC and Galerie Lelong & Co., New York; photo: Adam Reich
‘The Earth, That Is Sufficient’, 2021, exhibition view, Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York. Courtesy: Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York © The Estate of Ana Mendieta LLC and Galerie Lelong & Co., New York; photo: Adam Reich
Ana Mendieta is included in ‘The Earth, That is Sufficient’, a group exhibition at Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York that highlights landscape drawing, sculpture and photography as an assortment of traditional and radical depictions that characterise the ground we stand on and the distance we look out upon. The landscapes on view manifest as thought, object, vista and action. They offer up literal and metaphorical journeys and the terrestrial as full of physical and mental possibilities.
Mendieta’s photographs included in the exhibition, Sandwoman (1983) and Ochún (1981), emerge from her examination of the rapport between the body and nature. They urge us to reexamine how we relate to our surroundings and the impact of human presence on the earth.