Artist field note

Ana Mendieta

The body leaves a trace.

Untitled (Blood Sign #2) by Ana Mendieta
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Untitled (Blood Sign #2)

1974

Blood marks a doorway. A domestic threshold becomes charged with ritual and violence.

The five in one idea

Mendieta made belonging physical: body, earth, exile and ritual occupy the same gesture.