Ana Mendieta

1948–1985

Blood Sign 1974
© The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co., New York Licensed by the Artist Rights Society (ARS), NY
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Artworks

Gallery view of a video projection: a nude figure covered in white feathers stands on a plank over a green stream in a leafy gorge; four small framed colour photographs hang on the dark wall at left.

Blood Feathers

Colour photograph of a young woman's upturned face streaked with trickles of blood running from her hairline, her dark hair falling over a white ribbed top against a pale brick wall

Untitled (Self-Portrait with Blood)

A dimly lit room: a woman, naked from the waist down and smeared with blood, is bound bent forwards over a table, with crockery scattered across the floor

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Untitled (Rape Scene)

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A life-size female silhouette formed from twisted twigs, arms raised, standing inside a weathered arched stone niche, photographed in warm pinkish light

Untitled (Silueta Series, Mexico)

Small colour photograph of ruined stone walls and carved columns beneath cloud-wrapped green mountains, a reddish human silhouette staining the bare earth in the foreground

Untitled (Silueta Series, Mexico)

Grainy colour film still looking down at a patch of lawn, a faint body-sized area of grass pressed flat in the turf

Grass Breathing

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Energy Charge

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Alma, Silueta en Fuego

Artist as subject

Gallery view of a video projection: a nude figure covered in white feathers stands on a plank over a green stream in a leafy gorge; four small framed colour photographs hang on the dark wall at left.

Blood Feathers

Colour photograph of a young woman's upturned face streaked with trickles of blood running from her hairline, her dark hair falling over a white ribbed top against a pale brick wall

Untitled (Self-Portrait with Blood)

A dimly lit room: a woman, naked from the waist down and smeared with blood, is bound bent forwards over a table, with crockery scattered across the floor

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Untitled (Rape Scene)

This artwork contains sensitive content which can be viewed at your own discretion.

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