#silueta series

[zegalba]

Ana Mendieta: Untitled, Silueta Series (1978)

#ana mendieta #untitled #flame #fire #photography #Silueta Series #1978

[woundgallery]

Ana Mendieta, Silueta, 1973-78

#ana mendieta #silueta series #earth art #body art #disappearing acts #art #contemporary art #fire

[sorcadh]

Ana Mendieta

“To question our culture is to question our own existence, our human reality,” the artist Ana Mendieta once said. “This in turn becomes a search, a questioning of who we are and how we will realize ourselves.”

Mendieta's early work as a multidisciplinary artist dealt with themes surrounding violence against women. She often used performance.

In Untitled (Glass on Body Imprints—face)(1972), Mendieta presses her face forcefully against a pane of glass at differing angles. Beyond demonstrating her bodily distress, the distortion of her face across the various images disturbs the work’s function as a portrait. In other words, Mendieta’s photographs of her face do not cohere as representative of herself, thereby disrupting how others view her and draw conclusions about her identity.

 Untitled (Facial Cosmetic Variations) shows Mendieta manipulating her appearance using make-up and wigs, in some instances lightening her skin and hair to call into question her racialization in the US.

In the Silueta series (1973–80), Mendieta staged performances where she laid down in natural landscapes or covered her body in organic materials and then documented the resulting imprints or silhouettes. Untitled (1978) shows a dark indentation made in a sandy landscape covered in scrub, the outline of her body suggesting its absence. These performances recall Mendieta’s experience as an exile who was separated from her homeland at a young age. In her Silueta performances she marked the land, leaving the trace of her absent body. This trace perhaps serves as a metaphor for her absence from her birthplace; she was unable to return to Cuba until the 1980s.

"Working in Iowa and Mexico, she carved and shaped her figure into the earth, with arms overhead to represent the merger of earth and sky; floating in water to symbolize the minimal space between land and sea; or with arms raised and legs together to signify a wandering soul. These bodily traces were fashioned from a variety of materials, including flowers, tree branches, moss, gunpowder, and fire, occasionally combined with animals’ hearts or handprints that she branded directly into the ground".

#Ana Mendieta #Land art #absent body #silueta series

[abridurif]

Ana Mendieta, Untitled from "Silueta Series, Iowa", 1978

#ana mendieta #silueta series in Iowa #silueta

[sheltiechicago]

From The Series "Sombras Y Siluetas"

By Leonor Benito De La Lastra

All About Photo Magazine Awards 2023: “Shadows”

#leonor benito de la lastra #photographer #all about photo magazine awards 2023: shadows #shadows #black & white photography #photo series #sombras y siluetas #silhouette

[parure-d-insomnie]

‘’Untitled (from the Silueta series)’’ (alentours 1978)_______par Ana Mendieta.

#‘’Untitled (from the Silueta series)’’ (alentours 1978)_______par Ana Mendieta.

[irenelichtensteinblog]

Ana Mendieta, Untitled, Silueta Series, Mexico

[contemporary-disquiet]

ANA MENDIETA, Untitled: Silueta Series Iowa, 1977

#arte #arte contemporanea #contemporary #contemporary art #art #digital media #photography #mine.cd #mine.cd1 #ana mendieta #mendieta #performance art #performance #nature

[riverswater]

she loved me, yes, that I'm still loving her.

1. Mahmoud Darwish // 2. The Separation, Edvard Munch // 3. Holding On To Heartache, Louis Tomlinson // 4.+5. The Banshees Of Inisherin, Martin McDonagh // 6. The Voice I Owe to You (#63), Pedro Salinas // 7. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Michel Gondry // 8. Poem for a Blue Page, Natasha Rao // 9. Feeling Your Absence, Mathilde Roussel-Giraudy // 10. White Ferrari, Frank Ocean // 11.+12. Silueta Series, Ana Mendieta // 13. There Is No Absolution For The Fallen, Only Dying, P.D.

#mahmoud darwish #louis tomlinson #the banshees of inisherin #edvard munch #eternal sunshine of the spotless mind #web weaving #poetry #art #words #films #movies #cinema #heartbreak #i still love you and no one is surprised #mystuff #m #parallels #comparisons

[zegalba]

Ana Mendieta: Siluetas Series (1973)

#ana mendieta #body #sculpture #photography #landscape #nature #1973

[woundgallery]

Ana Mendieta

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[sex-death-rebirth]

Imagen de Yagul from the Silueta series by Ana Mendieta, 1973-1977

#death #rebirth #ana mendieta

[calvinandhobbes]

The drama’s done. Why then here does any one step forth?—Because one did survive the wreck.

Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (Ch. 1) // Franz Wright, “Empty Stage” // Gregg Araki, “Nowhere” (1997) // Gwendolyn Brooks, Selected Poems // Ana Mendieta, “Silueta Series” (1976) // Hieu Minh Nguyen, "My First” // The Gibsons of Scilly, “The Minnehaha” (1874) // Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (Epilogue) // Euan MacLeod, Figure in Sea above Figure on Hill, 2002 // Ilya Glazunov, Wave, 1987

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[butasslyn]

Image source: 1.sky-children-of-the-light.fandom.com and 2.Ana Mendieta: Untitled, Silueta Series (1978)

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[nobrashfestivity]

Ana Mendieta

Cuban-born performance and multi-media visual artist Ana Mendieta died in 1985 at the age of 36, leaving behind a massive collection of un-exhibited works. Now on view at London’s Hayward Gallery is “Traces,” her first UK retrospective, in which slides of these pieces reveal an untold career.

Born in Cuba in 1948, Mendieta was sent to Iowa by her parents at the age of 13 to escape the communist regime of Fidel Castro. In a subsequent search for identity and belonging, Mendieta turned her attention to the Earth and the female body as her core subjects. Though documented across a wide breadth of medums-photography, film, performance, sculpture-they were, in essence, her only tools. Mendieta developed a visual vernacular of feminine forms through experimentation with materials such as blood, wood and stone. In her famous “Siluetas” (Silhouettes) series, created between 1973 and 1981, she left imprints or outlines in the earth with her body, sometimes adding ritualistic adornments of flowers or fire to those markings.

Mendieta died in New York in 1985 after falling from the 34th-floor apartment she shared with her husband, the sculptor Carl Andre. Some suspect Andre of having thrown Mendieta from the window, though he was acquitted after a three-year trial. In the last room of the exhibition, the duality of the show’s title, which references both the marks made by her body in the earth and the work left behind after her death, is drawn out to a haunting degree. Presented alongside notebooks, postcards, and other archival materials, several white pillars are set up as projection screens for old-fashioned slide projectors showing the un-exhibited works. Each pillar is marked with the year in which the works shown there were made.

(text from art in america)

#ana mendieta #performance art #land art #feminism

[contemporary-disquiet]

ANA MENDIETA, Untitled: Silueta Series

#arte #arte contemporanea #contemporary #contemporary art #art #digital media #photography #mine.cd #mine.cd1 #nature #ana mendieta #mendieta