Rupestrian Sculptures

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Returning to Cuba from the United States in 1980 and 1981, Ana Mendieta began carving fertility figures into the caves and cliffs of her native land, which she called Rupestrian Sculptures. Many of these, such “Untitled (Guanaroca [First Woman]),” were named after indigenous goddesses, simultaneously serving as political and personal assertions of Mendieta’s presence and identity, as well as reminders of ancient traditions of goddess worship.