Nature in contemporary art and bodies of Latin American artists as entities in the Visual Arts

Ana Mendieta, Panema e Uýra Sodoma

Abstract

This article intends to point out some characteristics of contemporary artistic productions from the 1950s onwards, in correlation with the idea of ​​nature. To this end, the proposal is to point out and go through cultural, political and social contexts from the American and Latin American 1960s and 1970s, and discuss notions of entity through the production of Latin artists and their artistic propositions from bodies -artists and body-works with Ana Mendieta, Panema and Uýra Sodoma, in order to reflect on the movements of bodies (of artists, works, the world and the spectator) in each context, respectively, based on their different notions of nature, culture and ancestry. The readings of works made throughout this article can be understood as possible relationships between bodies-spectators and bodies-works from photos and videos as artistic objects developed from performative actions, however imprinting certain individualities in their autonomous states of being of performances in the world.