ANA MENDIETA
INCLUDED IN ‘SLOW BURN’, FINE ARTS GALLERY, SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN FRANCISCO, US
21 February – 4 April 2026
Ana Mendieta, Untitled: Silueta Series (detail), 1977, colour photograph, 62.2 x 87.6 cm. © Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, DACS 2026. Courtesy of Alison Jacques. Photography: Michael Brzezinski.
Guest curated by Lorena Molina, slow burn centres on how BIPOC artists use slowness as a form of refusal and a way to highlight the systems of oppression that structure their lives. Rather than treating time as neutral, the exhibition frames it as a political structure forged by histories of displacement, control, and erasure. In doing so, slow burn opens space to listen, to grieve, to be intimate, and to advocate for opacity and temporal self-determination.
Participating artists: Ana Mendieta, Mara Duvra, Tesora Garcia, Maria Gaspar, Tianzong Jiang, Joshua Moreno, Elaine T. Nguyen.