At age 12, Ana Mendieta (1948–1985) arrived in the United States as part of Operation Peter Pan, the Catholic Welfare Bureau program that airlifted thousands of Cuban children out of the country after the revolution. Displaced, she spent the rest of her short life making art about displacement. Her earth-body works are among the most radical of the 1970s, and saw her body pressed into mud, traced in fire, outlined in flowers, and merged with the landscape until the boundary between ground and figure dissolved entirely. Mendieta died in 1985, at 36, after falling from the window of her New York apartment. Her husband, the sculptor Carl Andre, was charged with her murder and eventually acquitted. The Tate Modern now presents a major U.K. exhibition devoted to Mendieta. —Elena Clavarino