Ana Mendieta
Butterfly, 1975
Stills from super-8mm film transferred to high-definition digital media, color, silent
Running time: 3:19 minutes
Edition of 6 with 3 APs
“At first everything was dark
There was no pain, moon, no people
No animals, no plants.
Darkness was everywhere
And then there was the Mother
The Mother was life.
The Mother was not people
She was thought and memory.
She was the spirit of what was to come.”
— Ana Mendieta