Ana Mendieta: Search for Origin
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), Leon
27 January – 19 May 2024
Ana Mendieta, Flower Person, Flower Body, 1975 © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Bringing together around one hundred works spanning seventeen years of Ana Mendieta’s career, ‘Search for Origin’ is the most extensive exhibition devoted to Ana Mendieta to be organised in Spain, and has been curated by Álvaro Rodriguez Fominaya. In a showcase that includes photographs, videos, sculptures, installations, drawings and paintings, the presentation explores the artist’s continual self-reinvention, and the development of Mendieta’s ephemeral and often performative sculptural language. The exhibition focuses on Mendieta’s mediation between the visible and the invisible, and the artist’s ability to render the unspeakable intelligible; it is not intended to be a retrospective, but rather to celebrate the contemporary relevance of Mendieta’s works.