What does it mean for humans to leave their trace on the land, and how permanent is it? Ana Mendieta’s powerful earth work “Nile Born” takes the form of a human silhouette covered in sand from the Nile. In this video, Eva Lavranou contemplates the work’s fragility in the context of her upbringing in Greece, and the inevitable “collaboration” of the body and the earth.
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