Regina José Galindo
Regina José Galindo (* 1974 in Guatemala City ) is a Guatemalan action , installation and body art artist.
Actions
She gained international fame with two performances in Guatemala (1999). ¿Quién Puede Borrar las Huellas? (Translated: Who can erase the traces?), Was created in 2000. Galindo ran barefoot from the Congress of the Republic of Guatemala to the National Palace and repeatedly dipped her bare feet in a white basin full of human blood to oppose the former dictator's presidential candidacy of Guatemala José Efraín Ríos Montt to protest.
With her Aktion Perra (2005) - the Spanish word perra means "bitch" - she protests against violence against women.
She often works with other artists, e.g. B. with her compatriot Aníbal López . In 2001 and 2011 she took part in the Venice Biennale.
Awards
In 2005 Galindo received the Golden Lion at the Biennale di Venezia , in the category "Artists under 30", for her video Himenoplastia . Nonetheless, this work met with hostility during its first performance in Guatemala (2004). The controversial work documents the surgical reconstruction of the artist's hymen .
In 1998 she was awarded the Premio Unico de Poesía in Guatemala for Personal e intransmisible (Scripta Coloquia, 2000) from the Myrna Mack Foundation.
Exhibitions
- 2016: Mechanisms of Violence , Frankfurter Kunstverein
- 2017: documenta 14 , Athens, Kassel
- 2011: Biennale di Venezia , Venice
- 2001: Biennale di Venezia, Venice
Individual evidence
Web links
- List of exhibitions and performances
- Official Website (Spanish)
- Profile at Literatura Guatemalteca
- BOMB Magazine article
- Galindos projects in Spain
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Galindo, Regina José |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Guatemalan action artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guatemala City |