Artworks

Ana Mendieta
Volcán, 1979
signed, titled, dated on reverse
Color photograph
8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Framed: 13.75 x 17 x 1.75 inches (34.9 x 43.2 x 4.4 cm)
(GL2809-A)

"We need and seek out comfort in the idea of stability and look upon the earth as our home, the imagined foundation of a stable, domestic architecture. Yet the visible earth is a veneer, stretched over a web of geological plates that do not match up. A volcano is the visible, exterior eruption of the earth's visible, interior disaggregation. Mendieta looked upon the earth as a twin metaphor of solace and displacement, never fully one or the other, mediated by time and body. Made in Iowa in 1979, Volcán embraces both facets of this idea." - from Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta by Howard Oransky