"In a manifesto-like move, all three of this summer's big exhibitions at Tate Modern celebrate an individual female artist; the others are Tracey Emin and Frida Kahlo. This is by far the best."

The Telegraph·Alastair Sooke

"This artist is irresistible. She does not just make startling interventions but presents a worked-out theory of the cosmos. She strives to reconnect art and nature around a feminist mythology of ancient goddesses, half forgotten, whom she literally digs out of the soil or reveals hidden in trees by fire sacrifice."

The Guardian·Jonathan Jones

"How refreshing, in an art world focused on output, to spend time with an artist dodging permanence. Again and again, Mendieta dissolved her body, hiding behind a bunch of flowers, crawling on all fours beneath the skin of a shepherd dog."

The Independent·Chloe Ashby