Fundamento De Palo Monte: Ana Mendieta
Fundamento De Palo Monte: Ana Mendieta
Exhibition Dates: March 09, 2024 — September 14, 2024
Ana Mendieta was a seminal twentieth-century Cuban-American artist known for her experimental performances. In this video from her Silueta Series (1973-1980), she uses her body to create art in conversation with different landscapes. In this five minute and fifty-five second film, the silhouette of Mendieta's body is filled with gunpowder and then set on fire. At the end, only a charred figure and the surrounding scorched earth remain as vessel for reflection on self and place.