Silueta Sangieta

Ana Mendieta

1975

Film (Photo Still for this Gallery)

Film

1 minute, 51 seconds

In this short film, Mendieta experiments with her own naked body in conversation with a landscape, lying on the ground and letting her body vanish and her remaining silhouette become filled with blood. This is an exploration of her connection to nature and her lack of belonging, parallel to her history of being ripped from her homeland of Cuba as a child and placed in an orphanage in Iowa. She also explores returning to the maternal source, or the earth that she came from, as a way of celebrating feminitity. Her body becomes an extension of nature and vice versa, prompting conversations of the female gender and its stereotypical connection to nature. The discomfort and grotesqueness of these images with the bloody silhouette and the sense of violence that come with it are used effectively to present the viewer with an unfiltered story of her displacement and the pains of her experience.

Galerie Lelong & Co.

https://www.artsy.net/artwork/ana-mendieta-silueta-sangrienta

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Luke Beemer