© The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC, courtesy: Galerie Lelong, New York
Anima, Silueta de Cohetes (Firework Piece), Oaxaca, Mexico
| Artist | Ana MENDIETA |
|---|---|
| Year | 1976 |
| Material/ Technique | Super-8mm color, silent film transferred to DVD |
| Size/ Duration | 2 min. 22 sec. |
| Copyright Notice | © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC courtesy: Galerie Lelong, New York |
| Year of acquisition/ donation | 2006 |
| Description | Born in Havana, Cuba in 1948. Died in New York, USA in 1985. Ana Mendieta immigrated to the United States at the age of 12. She studied fine arts at University of Iowa and began producing works. While staying in Mexico during university, she became interested in ancient civilizations, native cultures and traditions as well as her own identity, and she began to adopt icons from such cultures and traditions into her works. Her works were well conscious of her own body, which was also a trend among her contemporaries. Throughout her life from the first half of the 1970s, she worked actively to intensify those inclinations and to mark a still greater leap forward. Mendieta’s artistic practice centered on her performances. She recorded these performances on film and video and presented these as artworks. "Silueta Works in Iowa" is a series of photographs documenting her performances in Iowa in the United States. Mendieta’s own body appears, at times as a silhouette etched into the ground and at times covered in mud and as one with a tree. Her movements, which often involve her raising both arms in the air in a pose resembling that of an icon of a goddess of fertility, accentuate both her female identity and her Latin American ethnic identity. "Anima, Silueta de Cohetes (Firework Piece), Oaxaca, Mexico" is a video work that shows an effigy representing the artist herself burning itself out. Both are extremely important examples of Mendieta’s artistic activities, the essential themes of which are the bodies, traces, and existentiality of individuals in the world. |
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