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Ana Mendieta Quotes

My art is the way I reestablish the bonds that tie me to the universe.

My art is the way I reestablish the bonds that tie me to the universe.

Ana Mendieta
Art, Ties, Way

My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything: from insect to man, from man to spectre, from spectre to plant from plant to galaxy. My works are the irrigation veins of this universal fluid. Through them ascend the ancestral sap, the original beliefs, the primordial accumulations, the unconscious thoughts that animate the world

Ana Mendieta
Running, Art, Men
Jane Blocker, Ana Mendieta (1999). “Where is Ana Mendieta?: Identity, Performativity, and Exile”, p.34, Duke University Press

I have been carrying on a dialogue between the landscape and the female body (based on my own silhouette) I am overwhelmed by the feeling of having been cast from the womb (nature). Through my earth/body sculptures I become one with the earth I become an extension of nature and nature becomes an extension of my body

Ana Mendieta
Feelings, Female, Sculpture
Ana Mendieta, Gloria Moure, Donald Burton Kuspit (1997). “Ana Mendieta”

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