Galleria Raffaella Cortese is pleased to announce a second solo show of Cuban-born artist Ana Mendieta.

In a brief yet prolific career Mendieta experimented with various media, from performance to film, from photography to drawing and sculpture. Her artistic practice investigated the close relationship between Art and Nature, which Mendieta accomplished by merging her physical body or its imprint with the earth. In many performative films in fact, the body becomes the means by which the artist blends with Nature, in a kind of spiritual and visceral ritual that assumes a symbolic value of rebirth. As the artist repeatedly said, “culture is the memory of history” and it is in this sense that the body is not just a witness, but also the vehicle of collective memory.