Ana Mendieta & Veronica Ryan
in ‘A Clearing in the Forest’, Tate Modern, London
20 April 2022
‘A Clearing in the Forest’, installation view, 2022, Tate Modern, London. Photo: Isidora Bojovic © Tate
‘A Clearing in the Forest’, installation view, 2022, Tate Modern, London. Photo: Isidora Bojovic © Tate
Veronica Ryan, Relics in the Pillow of Dreams, 1985. Courtesy: © Veronica Ryan; photo: Isidora Bojovic © Tate
Ana Mendieta, Grass Breathing, 1974. Courtesy: © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC, licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; photo: Isidora Bojovic © Tate
Ana Mendieta and Veronica Ryan are included in ‘A Clearing in the Forest’, part of an ongoing group of exhibitions located in The Tanks at Tate Modern that are rooted in notions of ecology, ancestral ritual and eternal cycles of time.
On view in Room 2 of The Tanks until 1 February 2023, this group display stages a conversation between three women artists – which features, in addition to Mendieta and Ryan, a work by Anu Põder – and centres on the relationship between the body and the earth, as well as cycles of regeneration.