BODY AND EARTH CONNECTED IN REGINA JOSÉ GALINDO’S SOLO EXHIBITION
PAV (Parco Arte Vivente) is presenting Tierra (Earth), the solo exhibition of guatemaltecan artista Regina José Galino. She has been investigating for over 20 years the subject of social justice through the lens of performative practives.
Tierra covers the artist’s twenty-year-long career focusing on the ways in which every one of her contacts with natural elements should be read in an intersectional and militant key. Amongst all the natural elements, the earth has a particular status of its own: Galindo’s approach avoids any essentialist description of the relationship between the earth and the female body. The results of her approach, that has evolved over the years, are displayed from an initial focus on Guatemalan socio-political problems, to a (site-specific) attention to the contexts and communities with which the artist has found herself interacting.
The focal point of Regina José Galino’s expression is how and in which ways body and environment are connected. The artist uses the body as the preferred instrument of an intense artistic practice which began towards the end of the 1990s. Far from the formal type of research performed by the traditional art schools, Galindo immediately used art as a means of communication and political action. Born and brought up during the long Guatemalan military dictatorship, she was a witness from a very early age of the civil war characterized by repressive practices through to the ethnic cleansing of the indigenous populations.
-
Views from the exhibition. Courtesy PAV Parco Arte Vivente.
-
Views from the exhibition. Courtesy PAV Parco Arte Vivente.
-
Views from the exhibition. Courtesy PAV Parco Arte Vivente.
-
Views from the exhibition. Courtesy PAV Parco Arte Vivente.
-
Views from the exhibition. Courtesy PAV Parco Arte Vivente.
-
Views from the exhibition. Courtesy PAV Parco Arte Vivente.
-
Regina José Galindo. “Coal to light the fire”. Courtesy PAV Parco Arte Vivente.
Regina José Galindo (1974) lives and works in Guatemala City. Winner of the Leone d’Oro at the Venice Biennale in the young artists category in 2005; she received the Prince Claus Award in Holland, the special award at the 29th Ljubljana Biennale and the Robert Rauschenberg Award. Her works are on display in numerous public collections, including the Centre Pompidou, Paris; MEIAC- the Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz; the Fondazione Galleria Civica, Trento; the MMKA, Budapest; the Castello di Rivoli, Turin; the Daros Foundation, Zurich; the Blanton Museum, Austin; the UBS Art Collection, Basel; the Miami Art Museum; the Cisneros Fountanal Art Foundation, Miami; and the Madco-Museum of Contemporary Art, Costa Rica.
Related Topics
May interest you
RIVERS CAN EXIST WITHOUT WATER BUT NOT WITHOUT SHORES. THE EXHIBITION AT MAC LIMA
The exhibition proposes a review of the concepts and imaginaries with which the territories of the Amazon have been represented and covered from a perspective that sought to defend property over it, in order to assert sovereignty for the exploitation of its resources and its inhabitants.
MIGRATION, DISTANCE AND SOUNDS IN TRANSHEMISFERIO: RICHARD GARET - DIEGO MASI
The Gurvich Museum presents TRANSHEMISFERIO: Richard Garet - Diego Masi. An unprecedented exhibition in Uruguay that focuses on migration and distance through the dialogue between the two artists. Curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill.
A GEOLOGICAL REFLECTION ON QUEMAR LA TIERRA, THE EXHIBITION OF FABIANO KUEVA AND ROSELL MESEGUER
DORIS SALCEDO’S REFUGEES HOMAGE IN PALIMPSEST
In a large-scale installation, the Foundation Beyeler presents Palimpsest by internationally acclaimed Colombian artist Doris Salcedo. The exhibition is dedicated to the refugees and migrants who over the past twenty years have died attempting dangerous journeys across the Mediterranean or the Atlantic in search of a better life in Europe.
NO EXISTE UN MUNDO POSHURACÁN: PUERTO-RICAN ART IN WHITNEY MUSEUM
The exhibition explores how artists have responded to the transformative years since the hurricane by bringing together more than fifty artworks made over the last five years by an intergenerational group of more than fifteen artists from Puerto Rico and the diaspora.
ISABELLA SOLAR VILLASECA: MEMORY MARKETPLACE ON O-OVERGARDEN
The first major show of the multi-media artist on O-Overgarden, in which she explores her Chilean heritage.
GLADYS TRIANA'S TWO SIMULTANEOUS EXHIBITIONS
The Fairfield University Art Museum and the Art Museum at the University of Saint Joseph announce the closing of the monographic exhibition Gladys Triana: A Path to Enlightenment, 1971-2021, which displays the work of Gladys Triana (b. Cuba, 1937) at these two venues simultaneously. This exhibition, which opened on September 23, 2022, marked the first collaboration between both exhibitions to provide a two-venue survey of an artist’s work.
PUNTO DE VISTA: RODRIGO ARTEAGA'S EXHIBITION AT MAC
Curated by Carolina Castro Jorquera, Punto de vista (Point of view), Rodrigo Arteaga's exhibition, is a continuation of the artist's explorations and concerns about the way in which we perceive the beings and forms with which we coexist.
THE EPHEMERAL IN THINGS - MARTINA SERVIO OLAVIDE IN 1+1
In her first solo exhibition, the artist from Córdoba moves between and beyond the limits of what can be said, from words and beyond them, with curatorship by Agustina Rinaldi.
ANTHROPOCENE: THE ENVIRONMENT GROUP SHOW AT PROA
For the first time in Argentina Anthropocene is showing at PROA Foundation. A world-renowned exhibition by Canadian artists Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwall and Nicholas de Pencier.
ETCÉTERAS: JIM AMARAL AT MAMBO
The Museo de Arte Moderno in Bogota presents Jim Amaral: Etcétera, an exhibition dedicated to honour the extensive career of the eclectic artist, whose practice combines drawing, painting, sculpture, collage, assemblages and printmaking.
HABITAT BY LUCIANA LEVINTON. THE SHOW AT MACBA
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires presents Habitat, a selection of works by artist Luciana Levinton that includes large canvases and unusual supports.
PHOTOGRAPHY IN INK: A LOOK AT CONTEMPORARY COPPER-PLATE PHOTOGRAVURE
Penumbra Foundation’s new exhibition: Photography in Ink: A Look at Contemporary Copper-Plate Photogravure, displays a group of photogravure prints, which offers viewers the rare opportunity to expand their understanding of material photography.
