The late Cuban artist Ana Mendieta’s pioneering ‘earth-body’ works are described as critical to this major collective exhibition in London.
Barbican Art Gallery presents RE/SISTERS: A Lens on Gender and Ecology, a major group exhibition surveying the relationship between gender and ecology to identify the systemic links between the oppression of women and the degradation of the planet.
This expansive exhibition brings together photography, film, and installations by nearly 50 international women and gender non-conforming artists whose work is united across decades, continents, and media by an urgent engagement with, and protest against, the ongoing ecological crisis. Platforming work by artists from the Global Majority and Indigenous peoples, RE/SISTERS explores the indivisible bond between environmental and social justice, offering a vision of an equitable society wherein people and planet alike are venerated and treated fairly.
With a focus on empowerment rather than despair in the face of ecological breakdown, RE/SISTERS seeks to encourage a more reciprocal, grateful, and joyful relationship with our animate Earth, platforming works which reclaim nature as a feminist political space and which argue fiercely for the rights of Indigenous and Global Majority groups. Artists explore the use of camouflage and performance to construct dialogues between the body and its environment, as well as troubling the binaries of male/female and nature/culture. Ana Mendieta’s (Cuba) pioneering ‘earth-body’ works are critical to the exhibition, channelling Mendieta’s own belief in “one universal energy”.
Exhibition: RE/SISTERS: A Lens on Gender and Ecology
Full details about the show and artists are here Barbican.org.uk
Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London
EC2Y 8DS
Cuba 50 
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