Siluetas entintadas, instalación gráfica, life-writing gráfico y geografías corpóreas: Who Is Ana Mendieta?

Authors

  • Magdalena Maiz-Peña Davidson College

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18192/rceh.v43i1.4528

Abstract

The essay examines the graphic narrative Who Is Ana Mendieta? (2011), by
Canadian artists Christine Redfern and Caro Caron, as a graphic biopic which
constructs a postfeminist life-writing visual discourse of the Cuban artist Ana
Mendieta (1948-1985). The article identifies the ink drawings of bodies as the
main graphic technique which carves fluid silhouettes to narrate Mendieta’s
vibrant artistic life, her daring aesthetics, her defiant spirit and courage, and
the legacy of her performative and intermedia production. This graphic biopic
embodies a manifesto denouncing violence against women, and the graphic
narration becomes inked activism to reclaim the erasures of the global
cultural memory.

Published

2019-11-05