In Grass Breathing, a stretch of grass gently pulsates, rising and falling in a rhythm of breath, set in motion by the invisible artist’s body underneath. It belongs to a series of short film works the Cuban-born, US-based artist Ana Mendieta made in the 1970s and 1980s: ephemeral performances using natural elements and Mendieta’s own body. Collectively, these ‘earth-body’ works evoked the synergy between the human body and the living earth. Mendieta has said, “Having been torn from my homeland (Cuba) during my adolescence, I am overwhelmed by the feeling of having been cast from the womb (Nature). My art is the way I re-establish the bonds that unite me to the Universe. It is a return to the maternal source.”