Ana Mendieta
‘SEVERAL ETERNITIES IN A DAY: FORMS IN THE AGE OF LIVING MATERIALS’, HAMMER MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES: UNTIL 23 AUGUST
5 April – 23 August 2026
Ana Mendieta, Untitled: Silueta Series, 1977 © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC.
Ana Mendieta is included in ‘Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials’ a group exhibition at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Featuring twenty-two artists from North, Central, and South America who embrace the unpredictable nature of living materials, the artists use materials such as avocado, cacao, achiote, cochineal, stone, clay, and natural dyes to create large-scale installations, paintings, works on paper, and mixed-media sculpture. Each of these materials is alive – they evolve, decay, drip, crumble, and evaporate. They are rooted in the spirit, memory, and knowledge of Brown and Indigenous worlds. The exhibition considers ideas around materials as records of the living and repositories of cosmic memory, organic decay and transformation.
Mendieta’s work is exhibited alongside artists including Esteban Cabeza de Baca, Raven Chacon, Naomi Gamarra, Sky Hopinka, Nereyda López Gutiérrez, Ayla Tavares, Jackie Amézquita and Rose B. Simpson.