Regina Jose Galindo

Biography and works

"My body not like an individual body, but as a social body, a collective body, a global body. To be or to reflect through me, her, his, their experience because all of us, we are at the same time ourselves and the others…"

Video work

The surgeon points out my defects and the changes I would have to make in order to be "beautiful." In Venezuela, in particular, there is an obsessive cult of beauty.

I live in a violent country, and that is where my violent art comes from.

Galindo’s actions in “Who can erase the traces?” became immediately famous within the public as representation of individual resistance and a collective portrayal of a civil, untrusting society. In this work, a young woman dressed in black makes her way across Guatemala City—from the Constitutional Court to the National Palace—with her feet covered in blood, fulfilling a silent and difficult act, condemning against the possible presidential election of former dictator Rios Montt. But ever since her first action in 1999, Galindo was already congregating the space of her own body with society’s body, when—still unheard—she would chant her poetry while being suspended 10 meters above ground in an urban plaza in Guatemala City…