Manifesta purposely strives to keep its distance from what are often seen as the dominant centres of artistic production, instead seeking fresh and fertile terrain for the mapping of a new cultural topography.
Manifesta 15 Barcelona took place in Barcelona and 11 surrounding cities ot its metropolitan region.
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Ana Mendieta, CU/US
Ocean Bird (Washup), 1974 © Ana Mendieta, Vegap, Barcelona 2024. Photo © Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana / Ivan Erofeev.
In a brief yet prolific career, the Cuban-born artist Ana Mendieta created groundbreaking work in photography, film, video, drawing, sculpture and site-specific installations. Amongst the major themes in her work are exile, displacement and a return to the landscape, which remain profoundly relevant today. Her unique hybrid of form and documentation, works that she titled Siluetas, are fugitive and potent traces of the artist's inscription of her body in the landscape, often transformed by natural elements such as fire and water.
Mendieta was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1948, and died in New York City in 1985. To date, over 122 public institutions hold Mendieta’s works in their collections.