ANA MENDIETA & HANNAH WILKE
INCLUDED IN ‘IN OUR IMAGE: THE FRAGILE BODY IN CONTEMPORARY ART’, THE WAREHOUSE DALLAS ART FOUNDATION, US: UNTIL 30 JANUARY 2027
26 September 2026 – 30 January 2027
Installation view, In Our Image: The Fragile Body in Contemporary Art, The Warehouse, Dallas, 2026. © Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. DACS 2026. Photography: Kevin Todora.
Installation view, In Our Image: The Fragile Body in Contemporary Art, The Warehouse, Dallas, 2026. © Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. DACS 2026. Photography: Kevin Todora.
Installation view, In Our Image: The Fragile Body in Contemporary Art, The Warehouse, Dallas, 2026. © Marsie, Emanuelle, Damon and Andrew Scharlatt, Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, Los Angeles. Licensed by Artist’s Rights Society (ARS), New York, DACS, London. Photography: Kevin Todora.
Installation view, In Our Image: The Fragile Body in Contemporary Art, The Warehouse, Dallas, 2026. © Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. DACS 2026. Photography: Kevin Todora.
Installation view, In Our Image: The Fragile Body in Contemporary Art, The Warehouse, Dallas, 2026. © Marsie, Emanuelle, Damon and Andrew Scharlatt, Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, Los Angeles. Licensed by Artist’s Rights Society (ARS), New York, DACS, London. Photography: Kevin Todora.
Installation view, In Our Image: The Fragile Body in Contemporary Art, The Warehouse, Dallas, 2026. © Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. DACS 2026. Photography: Kevin Todora.
Artists have long used the human figure to reflect on societal anxieties and psychological traumas. In Our Image: The Fragile Body in Contemporary Art brings this tendency into the present moment. By gathering works from the Rachofsky and the Hartland & Mackie / Labora collections, alongside private and institutional loans, the exhibition draws on the human form as a window into identity, psychology, and consciousness. Here, the figure is not a symbol of perfection, but rather, a site of striving.
These works adopt vulnerability as a through-line, posing the fragile human body as a site for storytelling. At times animal or automated, they rely on moments of fallibility as a lens with which to reframe the nature of contemporary selfhood. Placing work from different cultural contexts in conversation, the exhibition looks at the vulnerable body as both a stage for the self and a reflection of society […]