Ana Mendieta, Untitled: Silueta Series, Mexico, 1974/1991
Images of Ana Mendieta, Untitled: Silueta Series, Mexico

Untitled: Silueta Series, Mexico, 1974/1991
Silver dye-bleach print
Framed: 24 ¼ × 18 ¼ in. (61.6 × 46.4 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gift from The Howard and Donna Stone Collection, 2002.46.3
Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago
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- a body measured against the earth–
- Short A photo of a picturesque countryside with stone ruins features a dark, human-like form in the dry dirt.
- Long In this vertical photograph, the bottom half of the image is taken up by a gray stone maze and, in the foreground, dry gray dirt with extremely sparse grass. On the ground is a vaguely humanoid impression, with a head, two arms, and a torso. It appears to be made with some kind of liquid, creating a deeply saturated brown imprint in the arid soil. In the distance, behind the stone maze, are lush rolling hills and mountains covered in dense foliage including one large tree. The top of the photo is occupied by dense white clouds. The color of the photo is slightly desaturated, giving it an archaic, desolate feeling.
Collection
- Ana Mendieta, Untitled: Silueta Series, Mexico, 1977/1991
- Short A mound of sandy earth is piled in the shape of an upside-down human body. An outline of a hand is scraped into the ground surrounding the body-shaped mound.
- Ana Mendieta, Untitled: Silueta Series, Mexico, 1976/1991
- Short A hole in the shape of a curvy human form with raised arms and bent elbows is dug into wet sand. Bright red pigment fills and spills out of the human-shaped hole.
- Ana Mendieta, Untitled: Silueta Series, Mexico, 1976/1991
- Short A statue made of loosely woven branches fills a niche in a crumbling stone wall. The statue is in the rough shape of a human figure with its elbows bent and arms raised to its sides.
- Ana Mendieta, Untitled: Silueta Series, Mexico, 1976/1991
- Short Photograph of flowers strewn on a beach where sand and water meet
- Ana Mendieta, Untitled: Silueta Series, Mexico, 1973/1991
- Short A person lays down in a stone-lined grave with flowers covering their body.
- Ana Mendieta, Untitled: Silueta Series, Mexico, 1977/1991
- Short A photograph of a hard dirt landscape with a rectangle of planted grass that frames a depression filled with white flowers in the silhouette of a human body.
- Ana Mendieta, Untitled: Silueta Series, Mexico, 1976/1991
- Short In a dark, nighttime scene, firework sparklers burn in the shape of a human with their hands held upward.
- Ana Mendieta, Untitled: Silueta Series, Mexico, 1976/1991
- Short A stone-sided grave holds an outline of a human form made with red flowers and green leaves.
- Ana Mendieta, Untitled: Silueta Series, Mexico, 1976/1991
- Short A white piece of fabric with a blood red imprint of a human figure is suspended on the back wall of a stone alcove. Dried branches rest in the bottom of the alcove.
- Ana Mendieta, Untitled: Silueta Series, 1978
- Short A black-and-white photo captures smoke billowing from a body-sized trench in a clearing with weeds and trees in the horizon.