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, the Antwerp exhibition brings together a wealth of Mendieta’s work. Her experimental film and photography pieces – often shot on Super 8 film – would feature her immersed in nature, whether lying in a stream or standing with her naked body covered in feathers and blood . Mendieta herself would refer toas ‘Earth-Body’ works, hinting at her own primitive need to reconnect with the world’s natural elements and ancient practices.
This displacement would prove central to the artist’sseries: “I have been carrying out a dialogue between the landscape and the female body, based on my own silhouette,” Mendieta said in 1981. “I believe this has been a direct result of my having been torn from my homeland during my adolescence. I am overwhelmed by the feeling of having been cast from the womb. My art is the way I reestablish the bonds that unite me to the universe. It is a return to the maternal source.
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