And yet, more often than not, the aesthetic impact in her work is a blow of political defiance. 3, nº 1, 2015, This page was last edited on 1 January 2021, at 02:38. “El cielo llora tanto que debería ser mujer”. Galindo vive y trabaja en Guatemala, utilizando su propio contexto como punto de inicio para explorar y denunciar las implicaciones éticas de la violencia social y las injusticias relacionadas a la discriminación racial y de género, así como los abusos … Regina José Galindo. “Art is art and politics is politics", says the Guatemalan artist Regina José Galindo. Moreover, it was important for me to use my art to disclose this series of murders and initiate a conversation. [19] This work, nevertheless, got a particularly hostile reception during its first showing in Guatemala, in 2004. No. C&AL: Like for example in the performance The Objective (2017) in the documenta 14 where you worked with an assault rifle G36, manufactured by the German weapon factory Heckler und Koch. And also in 2017 she organized the performance Make America Great Again in Los Angeles. Emplea su cuerpo como materia para la creación de complejas narrativas, explorando los límites de su propia "fisicidad" e incluso asumiendo riesgos con el fin de evidenciar y denunciar prácticas de sometimiento en las sociedades actuales. Since the late nineties, the work of Regina José Galindo has been characterized for denouncing different forms of oppression and violence in contemporary society. Autophobia addressed exactly this fear, which also plays a prominent role in Bitch. Regina José Galindo, Punto Ciego, comisionado y producido para la XVII Bienal de Arte Paiz, 2010. http://www.reginajosegalindo.com/ http://sueltasuelta.es Two Colombian photographers in South Africa examine the notions of representation, independence processes and image subversion. Regina José Galindo, Pig’s Blood, 2017. Courtesy of the artist. Galindo has exhibited four times at the Venice Biennale, in 2005 receiving the Golden Lion for young artists under thirty. Galindo is also a writer of poetry and narrative; in 1998 she received the Myrna Mack Foundation's Premio Unico de Poesía in Guatemala for Personal e intransmisible (Scripta Coloquia, 2000). [16][17] Curated by Erin K. Murphy, Visibilities not only kicks off the nonprofit's 25th anniversary celebration, but also highlights past artists from their International Artist-in-Residency program, such as Galindo who was a resident in Spring 2008. In Peru, young artists are exploring their roots – while trying to change the way the Latin American country regards itself. In Venezuela, in particular, there is an obsessive cult of beauty. At the past documenta 14 in Kassel, Germany (2017), Galindo presented three pieces. Her naked body becomes an intensely politicized surface for projection, encouraging an approach not only to concrete events but also to evident existential and universal circumstances marked by injustice and oppression. In Search of Decolonized Images of South Africa. https://brooklynrail.org/2009/11/artseen/regina-jose-galindo Villena Fiengo, Sergio, "Intervenciones intempestivas en Centro América. A conversation with Marta Moreno Vega, one of its founders. Regina José Galindo (born August 27, 1974) is a Guatemalan performance artist who specializes in body art.wikipedia. The thing is that Germany is one of the leading arms traders in the world, it manufactures weapons which are not used inside the country. La mejor poesía clásica en formato de texto. Self-flagellation with a knife, carving the word "perra" into her skin, protesting violence to women in Guatemala during 2005. Regina José Galindo Video work. A videotape of this performance was presented as an installation during the Sydney Biennial of 2010. Metrópolis online, completo y gratis en RTVE.es A la Carta. Today, she is one of the most provocative and renowned artists in Latin America. Galindo walked through the streets carrying a bowl of human blood, repeatedly stepping in the bowl to create bloody footprints, commemorating the victims of the genocide during the Civil War. Regina José Galindo To me this question feels too deep, too heartrending. Works such as ¿Quién puede borrar las huellas? Founder of the Afro Project, the scholar talks about how the platform came about and the importance of research on Afro-Brazilian art. The Colombian artist talks about neo-Amazonian art, the need for creating artistic spaces in indigenous territories and the problems with cultural appropriation in the arts. “More Desire to Measure up to the North Than to Redefine It”. Todos los programas de Metrópolis online en RTVE.es A la Carta Perhaps few contemporary genres more potently raise the “Is it art?” question than the kind of politically motivated endurance art practiced by Regina José Galindo of Guatemala. For Autophobia (2013), you fired a 9mm bullet at your own shadow. Enos Nyamor explores the visions of cultural journalism in a hypermediatized world. Poemas famosos de Regina José Galindo en español. Centro de Pesquisa e Formação do Sesc (online), Decolonizing the Human: an Introduction to Sylvia Wynter, Call for Art: Race and Technology “Digital Rights Are Civil Rights”. Regina José Galindo’s performances and poetry address social injustice, gender discrimination, and racism, focusing mainly on the governmental atrocities of the Guatemalan dictatorship. The controversial work depicted surgical reconstruction of the artist’s hymen. Emplea su cuerpo como materia para la creación de complejas narrativas, explorando los límites de su propia "fisicidad" e incluso asumiendo riesgos con el fin de evidenciar y denunciar prácticas de sometimiento en las sociedades actuales. Banco de España Metro Station, Madrid, Spain, A site–specific video installation by Regina José Galindo, commissioned by La Caja Blanca. Metrópolis - Regina Jose Galindo. [15], In January of 2020, Galindo was part of Artpace’s exhibit titled Visibilities: Intrepid Women of Artpace. Her work explores the universal ethical implications of social injustices especially those related to racial and gender discrimination. [4], She first gave two performances in Guatemala in 1999, and gained international fame. In 2011 the jury of the 29th Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana (Dave Beech, Christian Höller, Urška Jurman, and Ulay /Frank Uwe Laysiepen/) awarded her with the Grand Prize for the works: Confesión (Confession), 2007 which was produced in Spain and inspired by the extraordinary rendition flights uncovered by a team of local reportes in Palma de Mallorca, and the Prince Claus Awards.[22]. RJG: I did the performance in Italy. Díaz, Tamara, and Virginia Pérez-Ratton. Regina José Galindo (gua) Regina José Galindo (1974) es una artista visual y poeta, quien utiliza como medio principal el performance. [3] Her work as a poet developed through attending workshops and groups which met in friends' houses, at which time she wrote the pieces that became part of her book Personal and Intransmisible. Autophobia is not a suicide act. We need to activate the spectators, make them feel involved and confront them with something familiar, something they tend to normally ignore or silence. The first Black Curators Forum took place in Toronto, Canada, to discuss how black curators work with an ethos of extra care. Regina José Galindo (1974) Born and live in Guatemala City. Regina José Galindo (1974) Born and live in Guatemala City. Many artists of the African Diaspora have chosen to invest back on the continent by founding art projects, residencies and institutions. A conversation with Elvira Espejo, Bolivian artist and researcher, about textile art, the Bauhaus and the biased perspective of museums. In 2012, José Efraín Ríos Montt, the former President of Guatemala, was prosecuted on charges of genocide, terrorism, and torture; Regina José Galindo’s video is a haunting reinterpretation of the atrocities recounted during his trial. Galindo sat under a structure in Guatemala City's main square as a liter of blood was emptied, drop by drop, over Galindo's head and clothes. —Regina José Galindo. Regina José Galindo, El peso de la sangre, 2004, Plaza Central, Città del Guatemala, lambda print on forex, 75×100 cm. [4] Galindo's first performances were based upon her earlier written works. Sola Olulode is part of a new generation of young painters using internet languages to create multilayered aesthetics and narratives. In October 2008, Galindo exhibited alongside renowned artists like Tania Bruguera and Jimmie Durham at MoMA PS1 for NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith, an exhibition co-organized by The Menil Collection. With each blow of the machine, the woman’s death floats in the air, more threatening each time. Regina José Galindo was born 1974 in Guatemala City, in the middle of the civil war. Artist Lisa C Soto goes to the country of her ancestors, Puerto Rico, to explore and witness the island's contemporary art scene. A videotape of this performance was presented as an installation at the Venice Biennial of 2009. The Movement of People and Art on the Continent. An internationally recognized performance artist, Regina José Galindo was born in Guatemala and lives in Guatemala City. Metrópolis online, completo y gratis en RTVE.es A la Carta. Regina José Galindo. Through the process of physical interrogation, the artist effaces individuality, thus representing a collective body—oneRead more Bandjoun Art Station: The Importance of a Peripheral Institution in Cameroon. Artist listing at Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Video documentation of Regina José Galindo's, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Regina_José_Galindo&oldid=997552202, Articles with Spanish-language sources (es), Wikipedia articles with CANTIC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with RKDartists identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Picket Family Video Gallery, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA, Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan, Italy. Iheanyi Onwuegbucha talks to C&’s Obidike Okafor about the importance of mobility in daily life and art. Regina José Galindo, Earth, 2013. With C& author Wana Udobang, Rahima Gambo speaks about education, her relationship with nature, and Boko Haram. More than half the arms exported into Mexico have disappeared… and ended up on the black market. A woman stands in the middle of a meadow, naked, unmoving, stoic: Regina José Galindo. Regina José Galindo’s artistic practice situates her own body in a public dimension in a way that can be identified by anybody who has witnessed the violence and … In 2005 there was a series of murders of women. RJG: In the United States I performed Pig’s Blood and Make America Great Again. The visitor becomes a potential victimizer and at the same time, the real victim. Regina José Galindo, 2008 Prometeo Gallery di Ida Pisani, Milan ROLLO Contemporary Art, London Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York and Caracas, 2010 The Museum … Foto: Bernard Huet. Courtesy of the artist. The exhibition surveyed Galindo's prolific output from the past decade and included newly commissioned performance, sculpture and photography. And yet, more often than not, the aesthetic impact in her performances is a blow of political defiance. According to Clare Carolin, the show was the first major UK presentation of Galindo's work as well as the first monographic survey of her work. These are questions that need to be asked, both with regards to the arms industry as well as to the politicians responsible for the arms trade treaties. Galindo has exhibited four times at the Venice Biennale, in 2005 receiving the Golden Lion for young artists under thirty. Performed in Athens, Galindo’s action is a response to the misinformation, characterizations of weakness, and demonstrations of power enmeshed in the EU bailout measures. Regina José Galindo (Ciudad de Guatemala, 1974) es una artista guatemalteca especializada en performance, siendo una de los mayores exponentes latinoamericanas de la disciplina en la actualidad.Además es autora especializada en poesía.Su obra se caracteriza por su explícito contenido político y crítico, empleando su propio cuerpo como herramienta de confrontación y … Because obviously, the objective of the weapon industry is to make money. Who can erase the traces? Website bySHIFT. In her first performance work, a stark naked Galindo continuously submerged herself in a tub of water for as long as she can hold her breath. Regina José Galindo (1974, Guatemala City) is a radical and compelling performance artist who confronts violence, oppression and injustice. The year 2020 has ushered in new space for black Brazilian art – whether in galleries, retrospectives or academic debates. Walk from the Constitutional Court to the National Palace in Guatemala City leaving a footprint trajectory made of human blood, in memory of the Guatemalan armed conflict’s victims, and as a form of rejection of the presidential candidacy of Efraín Ríos Montt – ex-military, genocidal, and pro-coup. Regina José Galindo's Tierra is striking in a way that is perhaps uncommon in the artist's oeuvre: the aggression in the performance is not directly aimed at her nude body, but to her surroundings. After meeting Jessica Lagunas and Maria Adela Díaz, performance art grew in importance in her practice. A digger is digging a hole around her exposed body. 46 Related Articles [filter] Aníbal López. Luciara Ribeiro talks about the importance of analyzing archives and their gaps to think about revisions that question colonization. potencia mundial To Art, Its Freedom, Depictions of Queer Black Love for the Digital Age. Melvin Edwards - o escultor da resistência, “Dreaming Black Futures” by edna bonhomme and Mia Imani Harrison, María Thereza Negreiros y 16 mujeres artistas de su generación, MACD - Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, To Each Era Its Art. Regina José Galindo has become a world-renowned artist for her impactful denunciation of gender and racial violence. Guatemalan artist Regina Jose Galindo has spent much of her career bringing international visibility to the very issues that these people deal with at home. In 2014 in Mexico, 43 students were killed when protesting against the Mexican government, and they were killed with these exact rifles from Heckler und Koch. An internationally acclaimed visual artist specializing in performance art, Galindo is known for pushing her body to the limit to create powerful public works that challenge the inequalities and atrocities that have become commonplace across the globe. What did you learn from it? Regina José Galindo (born August 27, 1974) is a Guatemalan performance artist who specializes in body art. Regina José Galindo The surgeon points out my defects and the changes I would have to make in order to be "beautiful." Regina José Galindo (born August 27, 1974) is a Guatemalan performance artist who specializes in body art.wikipedia. To avoid that passive posture, I decided that whenever I work abroad, I make reference to local issues. Her performances are often brutal physical actions that reimagine environments that portray the social, political, and economic instability of many countries in Central America. To me, the compassionate gaze from the outside, together with the conviction of not being in any way related to the issue, is a passive position and, ultimately, inefficient. For the duration of this work, Galindo spent one month dressed as a maid. El Nuevo Museo, Guatemala City, Guatemala. In this performance, the visitors at documenta 14 in Kassel – the city is an important center for the weapon industry – they could take aim at me and at my Guatemalan body with an assault rifle of German manufacture. Performance. Since the late nineties, the work of Regina José Galindo has been characterized for denouncing different forms of oppression and violence in contemporary society. Metrópolis - Regina Jose Galindo. Photography Belia de Vico Video Aníbal López (Colectiva Cinismo, Espacio Contexto, Guatemala. Remarkably, for an artist who is known for the political themes of her work, Galindo grew up in a lower middle class household where politics generally, and the Guatemalan civil war more specifically, were not discussed. C&AL: Last year, in different performances, you approached the political situation in the United States. In Regina José Galindo’s Rescue (2017), the action is heard before it is seen. In 2005, you carved in the word “bitch” into your thigh. Regina Jose Galindo. For this performance I studied the movement of the weapons and the illegal arms trafficking closely. The clouded mirror being the only sign of life, contradicting all of the signs of an apparent death. Consider the work by Regina José Galindo, No perdemos nada con nacer (We don’t lose anything by being born) (2000). Regina José Galindo was born in 1974 in Guatemala City, Guatemala where she currently lives and works. 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