Further Media
The three photographs "Silueta Tehuana", "Silueta de Yagul" and "Árbol de la Vida (Tree of Life)" from the "Silueta series" are photographic documents of Ana Mendieta’s sculptural interventions in the Mexican landscape. She realized her works through an in-depth study of nature and topology far removed from the art centers, as was characteristic of the so-called land art of the 1960s and ’70s. Here, Mendieta incorporated her own body into her works by inscribing her silhouette into the landscape using soil, vegetation, and stones. The artist herself called the ephemeral artworks thus created "earth-body-works." In her eyes, they bring the body into a symbiotic but also spiritual relationship with nature.