Carolee Schneemann and Ana Mendieta who met on a panel in 2011 shared some basic instincts about their bodies in nature and otherwise as instruments of artistic power. Both were iconoclasts, very much their went their own way resetting boundaries. Schneeman was well known for a feminist performance piece pulling a tape out of her vagina. Mendieta was known for burning her silhouette in a ring of fire. (And for her tragic end out the window (pushed?) after a violent argument with her husband Carl Andre.)Now they are reunited in an online exhibition coming on April 30th by PPOW and Galerie Lelong showcasing some of this startling imagery that will surely once again wake us up as isolation begins to draw down our emotional resources.

Photo credit: Antony McCall 5 x 3 1/2 in. (12.7 x 8.89 cm) Courtesy of the Estate of Carolee Schneemann, Galerie Lelong & Co., and P·P·O·W, New York