Regina José Galindo

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name = Regina José Galindo
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birth_date = 1974
birth_place = Guatemala City, Guatemala
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occupation = Performance artist
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Regina José Galindo (1974- ) is a Guatemalan performance artist who specializes in body art. She was born in Guatemala City.

Performances

She first gave two performances in Guatemala in 1999, and gained international fame. One of her well-known acts include "¿Quién Puede Borrar las Huellas?" (Translated: "Who Can Erase the Traces"), made in 2003, in which she walked from the Congress of Guatemala building to the National Palace, dipping her bare feet at intervals in a white recipient full of human blood, as a vigorous protest against the presidential candidacy of Guatemala’s former dictator José Efraín Ríos Montt. [ [http://www.bombsite.com/galindo/galindo.html Regina José Galindo] Francisco Goldman ]

Another of her notable work was titled "Perra", made in 2005, which she carved the Spanish word "perra" on her legs, in protest of violence against women. [ [http://www.parvis.net/intranet/Upload/Liens/CentredArt/centredart_265.doc Regina José Galindo] Parvis.net ]

Recognition

Galindo received the Golden Lion award at the Venice Biennale in 2005, in the category of “artists under 30”, for her video "Himenoplastia", [ [http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2005/06/13/venicebiennale050613.html Women in the spotlight as Venice Biennale opens] CBC ] this is a work that, nevertheless, got a particularly hostile reception during its first showing in Guatemala, in 2004. The work itself was controversial that it depicted surgical reconstruction of the artist’s hymen. [ [http://www.artnexus.com/NewsDetail/16226 Regina José Galindo] Mariana David ]

A monographic collection of Galindo’s performance work has been published in Italy (Vanilla Edizioni, 2006). Galindo is also a writer of poetry and narrative; she received the Myrna Mack’s Foundation 1998 "Premio Unico de Poesía", in Guatemala, for "Personal e intransmisible" (Scripta Coloquia, 2000).

List of works

This is a list of some of her performances:

2007

“Confesion”performance takes place in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Inspired by waterboarding. Based on recently declassified CIA documents

2006

“Corona”, instalación, conmemorating over 6040 killings durin the Año de la Paz
Plaza Central, Guatemala City

2005
“Perra”, self-flagellation with a knife, protesting the killings of women
Prometeo Galery, Milan, Italy

2004
“El Peso de la Sangre”
Plaza Central, Guatemala City

2003
“¿Quién puede borrar las huellas?”
Guatemala City

2001“Angelina”, artist spent one month dressed as a maid
Guatemala

2000
“Sobremesa”, performance/instalación
Guatemala City

1999
“El cielo llora tanto que debería ser mujer”
Guatemala City and Madrid, Spain

“Lo voy a gritar al viento”
Guatemala City

References

External links

* [http://www.lacajablanca.com/adobe/LCB_%20notadeprensa_REGINA%20GALINDO_20.%2009.2007.pdf Press release for CONFESION (in spanish)]
* [http://www.karaandrade.com/ Regina José's Page]
* [http://www.literaturaguatemalteca.org/rjgalindo.htm Literatura Guatemalteca]
* [http://www.palabravirtual.com/index.php?ir=crit.php&wid=502&show=poemas&p=Regina+Jos%E9+Galindo Palabra Virtual]
* [http://www.parvis.net/intranet/Upload/Liens/CentredArt/centredart_265.doc At Parvis.net]
* [http://www.bombsite.com/galindo/galindo.html BOMB Magazine Article]
* [http://www.the-artists.org/ArtistView.cfm?id=ACB31E08-D944-F91E-1D7C663E6CCBEB5B The Artist.org Entry of Galindo]

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