Ana Mendieta Quotes

Cuba, Artist
November 18, 1948 – September, 8, 1985.

Ana Mendieta was a Cuban American performance artist, sculptor, painter and video artist who is best known for her "earth-body" artwork. Born in Havana, Mendieta arrived in the United States as a refugee in 1961 (two years after Marxist revolutionary leader Fidel Castro overthrew the authoritarian government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista).

Also known as Sculptor, Painter

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
- Nature
- Earth
- Body
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
- Art
- Energy
- Belief

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

Ana Mendieta
- Art
- Universe
- Bonds