Feminist Legacies at Frieze London and Masters 2026
Frieze
September 2026
[…] On the occasion of Ana Mendieta’s major retrospective at Tate Modern, Alison Jacques’s group presentation includes the late Cuban artist’s Untitled (Facial Hair Transplants), a photographic work that interrogates gender and the social conventions that shape the body. By gluing her friend’s beard onto her face, Mendieta playfully prods at the distinctions between the feminine and masculine, challenging normative ideas of beauty and sexual identity. A key figure in feminist art of the 1970s and ’80s, Mendieta often used her own body to question the cultural and patriarchal forces that define gender, sexuality and belonging. The work reflects her wider practice of treating the body as a site for questioning power and displacement […]