![]() ![]() However, in the 80s she qualified her practice as that of a sculptor. Honoré explains, “Mendieta always refused to categorise her work, and certainly not by the media. Since Mendieta has an oeuvre spanning across many decades, one is curious to know more about the curatorial strategies used to select works to give a complete overview of her practice. Ocean Bird (Washup), 1974, Super-8mm film, colour, silent Image: © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC, Courtesy of The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC and Galerie Lelong & Co. Through them ascend the ancestral sap, the original beliefs, the primordial accumulations, the unconscious thoughts that animate the world'.” ![]() My works are the irrigation veins of this universal fluid. He says, “The influence, or the connection of Mendieta with artists in 2023, be they French or not, can easily be found in one of her quotes: '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. Montpellier Contemporain, in an interview with STIR, provides an explicit account of the parallel between the Cuban-American and French art scenes to talk about the global art practice of the 20 th century while keeping Mendieta's practice at the centre. Vincent Honoré, director of exhibitions at MO.CO. Panacée Image: Pauline Rosen Cros, Courtesy of The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC and Galerie Lelong & Co. Exhibition view of Untitled (Grass on Woman), Search for Origin, 1972/ 2001, at MO.CO. ![]()
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