Module 4, 8th artist: Ana Mendieta

Ana Mendieta was a Cuban-American artist famous for her performance art and "earth-body" sculptural, photographic, and video work. I was surprise on her death at early age. According to this one article, it said it was an accident which she fell down on 34 floor of where she lived with her husband. Her husband was also well known artist and he was accused for murdering her death, but court announced that it was a suicide and no charge against him. I heard about how artist suffer from depress and how their emotions change so quickly. Her performance art focused on women’s body and trying to express what women have on their appearance and comments on things that was restricted to women in back in the days. Was she commenting of freedom? equal right to all human being?