Ana Mendieta
Untitled: Silueta Series

Untitled: Silueta Series

© The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC, courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, licensed by the Artist Rights Society (ARS), NY

Untitled: Silueta Series
Untitled: Silueta Series
ArtistAmerican, born Cuba, 1948–1985
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Untitled: Silueta Series
Date1979
MediumSingle channel video, color, silent, 1/8 + 3 AP
Dimensions3 minutes, 9 seconds
Credit LineGift of the estate of Ana Mendieta
Object number2021.566
Non exposé

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During her graduate school years at the University of Iowa, Cuban-born Ana Mendieta created a photographic and film series titled “Silueta,” in which she outlined her body’s shape on the ground using a range of natural materials including soil, flowers, blood, fire, and water. For this film, Mendieta dug the shape of her body into a riverbank and filled it with flammable material that she then lit on fire, thereby evoking ideas of nature, religion, the feminine, and ephemerality.



ProvenanceEstate of the artist; given to MFAH, 2021.

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