Summary
This is a colour photograph showing a view across low stone ruins to green hills and cloud-covered mountains in the distance. In the foreground, the roughly delineated silhouette of a human figure appears to have been painted on the sandy ground. The photograph was taken in the ruins of the ‘Labyrinth’ in the Palace of Six Patios at Yagul, an archaeological site in the valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. Ana Mendieta bought blood from a butcher at a market in the city of Oaxaca and poured it onto the earth within the outlines of her body, created with the assistance of her lover and teacher, the artist Hans Breder (born 1935)… (read more)
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