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In Imagen de Yagul, her earliest silueta, Mendieta’s face and body are covered with white flowers, creating a poignant contrast between her young body and the ancient, rocky Zapotec grave in which she lies. The other photograph in SFMOMA’s collection, an untitled silueta from 1978, exemplifies her later work as she turned towards more abstracted female forms, the outline of the body nearly invisible in the Iowa grass…

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Posted on February 7, 2012 via SFMOMA with 485 notes

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