Traces (for Ana)

Saturday October 15

5pm

Angels Point, Elysian Park

Recent Los Angeles transplant Cindy Rehm will perform Traces (for Ana) at Angels Point, Elysian Park at 5pm on Saturday, October 15. The performance pays homage to Ana Mendieta’s Silueta Series, which featured Mendieta physically rendering her body onto the earth. Like Mendieta, Rehm enacts ritual based performances that explore the fragile separation between the body’s interior and exterior space. Traces (for Ana) is a work that seeps between mortality and the impermanence of the soul.

Traces (for Ana) continues Rehm’s use of gesture, repetition, and fragmentation to address complex relationships between the female body, representation, and myth. She employs the act of staining as a metaphor for loss and decay, and as a literal marker of time. Rehm first performed Traces (for Ana) in a Baltimore warehouse space in 2000. Since moving to Los Angeles, Rehm has been inspired by the luminous California landscape, and will perform this version of the work within the natural landscape.

Cindy Rehm is a Los Angeles based artist and educator. She is co-director of Craftswoman House, a feminist art space in Pasadena. She is the founder and former director of spare room, a DIY installation space in Baltimore, Maryland. From 2001-2004, Rehm served on the editorial board of Link: A Critical Journal on the Arts. She is the recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship in Media from the Tennessee State Arts Commission and a Learning to Love You More Grant. Her work has been shown at Woman Made Gallery, Chicago; Consolidated Works, Seattle; Goliath Visual Space, Brooklyn; Transformer Gallery, Washington, DC; LACE, Los Angeles; Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece; and other venues. Rehm’s work may be viewed at cindyrehm.com and she maintains a blog at themouthandtheknife.blogspot.com.