Ana Mendieta, Untitled: Silueta Series, Mexico, 1976/1991
Images of Ana Mendieta, Untitled: Silueta Series, Mexico

- Short A stone-sided grave holds an outline of a human form made with red flowers and green leaves.
Untitled: Silueta Series, Mexico, 1976/1991
Silver dye-bleach print
Sheet for parts 1, 6, 9, 10: 15 7/8 × 19 7/8 in. (40.3 × 50.5 cm); sheet for parts 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12: 19 7/8 × 15 7/8 in. (50.5 × 40.3 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gift from The Howard and Donna Stone Collection, 2002.46.11
Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago
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- 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 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.