Ana Mendieta: Blood Inside Outside
Baltimore Museum of Art
1 March 2020 – 3 January 2021
Ana Mendieta, ‘Blood Inside Outside’, 2020-21, exhibition view, Baltimore Museum of Art. Courtesy: Baltimore Museum of Art; photo: Mitro Hood
Ana Mendieta, ‘Blood Inside Outside’, 2020-21, exhibition view, Baltimore Museum of Art. Courtesy: Baltimore Museum of Art; photo: Mitro Hood
Ana Mendieta’s film Blood Inside Outside (1975) is currently on view at Baltimore Museum of Art, as part of a special solo presentation.
Recently acquired by the BMA, Blood Inside Outside demonstrates the pioneering feminist artist’s exploration of the multiple layers of meaning ascribed to blood – from death to rebirth.
This presentation of the film by the late artist is accompanied by rare lifetime photographs from the artist’s Body Tracks series as well as her elegant drawings of abstracted outlines of Palaeolithic goddesses, repeatedly inscribed on a variety of surfaces, from modern paper to an actual leaf to an ancient style of bark cloth.