TIAB VIEWING ROOM: ANA MENDIETA
Ana Mendieta, Parachute, 1973. 1/2-inch reel-to-reel video w/ sound (digitized). 7’ 9”. Courtesy the Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC and Galerie Lelong & Co., New York.
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Curator’s Text:
Ana Mendieta’s early and lesser-known video work, Parachute (1973), explores Mendieta’s role as an educator and a facilitator of knowledge and experience. The video presents the idea of imaginative play, human togetherness, and ultimate alienation through the use of a parachute as a gathering device of a student body.