Regina José Galindo
Urgent Issues / Urgente
Curator: Ruxandra
Balaci
10.02. - 20.04
Co-produced with: PrometeoGallery di Ida Pisani, Milan/ Lucca
Performance: Object of
Cult
Having been awarded the Golden Lion for Best Young Artist at the Venice Biennale
in 2005, Regina José Galindo uses performance and her own body as main devices
in the artistic process. Through a kind of re-enactment, the artist substitutes
herself to the weak and the humble, to the tortured and the oppressed, staging
limit situation. Her own delicate, feminine body is mistreated, in a kind of
“self-exposure” and unselfishly substituting herself to various traumas
inflicted upon other human beings in oppressive political regimes. Regina José
Galindo’s discourse thus relates to other works in the activist area and gender
issues with reference to ancestral shamanic myths and exorcising gestures such
as Ana Mendieta’s and Sigalit Landau’s, to the rituals of resistance in Tania
Bruguera’s and Teresa Margolles’ work: impressive installations over death and
the excluded of society.
Focusing on tough issues of an oppressed
humanity, Urgent Issues presents a selection of the most important works created
between 1999 and 2009 and will be followed by a catalogue edited by
PrometeoGallery.
Regina José Galindo (Guatemala City, 1974) took part
in the Venice Biennale in 2001, 2005 and 2009. In 2005 she was awarded the
Golden Lion for Best Young Artist. Her works are now in several public and
private collections and have been exhibited in many prestigious venues,
including PS1 New York, Le Plateau Paris, CIFO Miami, Smak Ghent, Tirana
Biennale, Museo de Arte Moderna de Guatemala, TEOR/ética Costa
Rica.
Ruxandra Balaci is a curator and Artistic Director of MNAC
Bucharest
DISCLAIMER:
THE
CONTENT OF THE WORKS EXHIBITED IS INAPPROPRIATE FOR AN AUDIENCE UNDER 18 YEARS
OLD.
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