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Ana Mendieta, Butterfly 1975, Super-8 mm film transferred to high definition digital media, black and white, sound, 1;36 minutes, Courtesy of The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection LLC. and Galerie Lelong, New York
"Dissolve, on display, lose arms, like Nike of Samothrace, lose a face, like a tethered Caryatid, grow a patch like a Herm. A butterfly is a body, of nobody, a migration from my temporary place in history."