Estate of Ana Mendieta
Galerie Lelong & Co. is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition Ana Mendieta: Silhueta em Fogo which will open at SESC Pompéia, São Paulo, Brazil on September 19, 2023 and remain on view through January 21, 2024.
Curated by Daniela Labra, co-curated by Hilda de Paulo and assisted by Maíra de Freitas, the exhibition Ana Mendieta: Silhueta em Fogo presents the first comprehensive overview in Brazil of one of the most emblematic artists in contemporary art. The exhibition features twenty-one filmworks recorded on Super 8, 16 mm and ¾” video between 1972 and 1981—among them Black Angel (c. 1975), which will make its digitally remastered public premiere in this exhibition. Exhibited for the first time since its digital restoration, Mendieta shot this filmwork in Oakland Cemetery, Iowa City on Super 8. Also on view in the exhibition will be a selection of photographs that demonstrate Mendieta's unique hybrid of form and documentation. Materializing her work across a variety of media and aesthetic supports, the artist became a
pioneer in the investigation of poetics related to the body, ecology, archetypal femininity, ancestry, healing, ecology, criticism and performativity. In 2013, The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC, in collaboration with Galerie Lelong & Co., catalogued and digitized the entirety of Mendieta’s moving image works, discovering that the artist remarkably made more than 100 in the ten-year period in which she worked in the medium.
The exhibition is complemented by the presentation of terra abracaminhos, a collective exhibition that examines how Mendieta's works have become a point of reference for artists of different generations. Artists on view include Laura Aguilar, Regina José Galindo, Ricca Lee, Yara Pina, Vulcanica Pokaropa, Suzana Queiroga, Carolee Schneemann, Celeida Tostes, Cecilia Vicuña, and Márcia X.