Experience the powerful work of Ana Mendieta, a groundbreaking feminist artist known for her earth-body ephemeral sculptures.

Active between 1972 and 1985, Ana Mendieta was a highly influential feminist artist who created groundbreaking work across photography, film, earth work, drawing, installation and performance.

Widely celebrated for her Silueta series, which outlines the artist's own body in the landscape using earth, fire, water, flowers and other materials, Mendieta documented such ephemeral, temporary works using still photography and film. This monograph, published to accompany the first major exhibition of Mendieta’s work in the UK in over a decade, showcases such works across over 200 expertly reproduced images.

Essays by contributors such as Chuz Martinez, Ida Panicelli and Maria Elena Ortiz delve deeper into individual artworks, including rare paintings from the beginning of Mendieta’s career (De Pelicula, 1969), ephemeral sculptures (Sandwoman series), and the seminal Atabey (Mother of the Waters) made in the early 1980s, which saw the artist working alongside the soft limestone walls of caves outside Havana.

Valentine Umansky is Curator, International Art at Tate Modern. Michael Wellen is Curator, International Art at Tate Modern. Chus Martínez is Director, Art Institute at FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel Catherine Wood is Director of Programme at Tate Modern, and curator of contemporary art and performance. At Tate she has co-curated numerous exhibitions including The World as a Stage (2007), Pop Life (2010) and A Bigger Splash: Painting after Performance (2012), as well as co-directing the opening programme for the Tate Tanks in 2012 titled, Art in Action. She has programmed numerous performance works at Tate since 2003, including works by Mark Leckey, Joan Jonas, Guy de Cointet, Jiri Kovanda and Sturtevant, and initiated the online project, Performance Room in 2011. Wood is author of Yvonne Rainer: The Mind is a Muscle (2007, Afterall/MIT Press). A regular contributor to Afterall, Artforum and Mousse magazines, she has also written numerous catalogue essays, recently on Joachim Koester, Piotr Uklanski and Sung Hwan Kim.