Ana Mendieta – source of life, mother nature
Alexa Wang, FLUX Magazine
June 2026
Opening at Tate Modern from 15 July 2026 to 17 January 2027, this major exhibition—the first substantial U.K. survey of Mendieta’s work in over a decade—brings together many of her most iconic pieces alongside newly remastered films, early paintings and late sculptural works, several never before shown in Britain. Organised with the Estate of Ana Mendieta, the exhibition also spills beyond the gallery walls, reflecting the artist’s profound relationship with the natural world.
Mendieta is best known for the Silueta Series, the radical body of work she developed throughout the 1970s in which the human form is pressed into, traced onto, or disappears into the landscape. Working with materials including fire, water, earth and flowers, she staged temporary interventions that existed only briefly before being reclaimed by nature. Photography and film became both documentation and artwork, preserving these acts of transformation. […]