Feb 4th 2017

Regina José Galindo

@ Defibrillator Gallery

1463 W Chicago Ave. Chicago, IL 60642

Opening Saturday, February 4th, from 7PM - 10PM

Defibrillator is proud to present

A performance by REGINA JOSÉ GALINDO.

REGINA JOSÉ GALINDO has developed a socially and politically motivated practice in which she strives to acknowledge the thirty-six years of civil war her country endured, but also looks forward to a more peaceful and productive future. In her most celebrated work, Who Can Erase the Traces? (Quién puede borrar las huellas?, 2003), she walked barefoot through the streets of Guatemala City, from the Palacio Nacional de la Cultura to the Corte de Constitucionalidad, carrying a basin filled with human blood into which she periodically dipped her feet. The trail of footprints visualized her reaction to the recent news that Efraín Ríos Montt, a former military dictator responsible for the most destructive period of the country’s internal conflict, had been permitted to run for president despite constitutional prohibitions.

Her works are combative and often shocking, bringing into the public realm topics that few Guatemalans dare confront. Works like Bitch (Perra, 2005), in which she cut her thigh with a knife, or Hymenoplasty (Himenoplastia, 2004), in which she underwent surgery to rebuild her hymen, challenge the ways that women are objectified in her highly conservative homeland.

Galindo exhibited alongside renowned artists like Tania Bruguera and Jimmie Durham at MoMA PS1 for NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith. She has had solo exhibitions at Museums around the world and has participated in the Havana Biennial (2009); Venice Biennale (2009 and 2011); Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates (2011); and Cuenca Biennial, Spain (2012). She has received several awards, including the Golden Lion for a Promising Young Artist at the Venice Biennale, and the Grand Prize Award at the Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2011).

Northern Illinois University is bringing Regina José Galindo to the US as part of an exhibition called (Re)Presenting Guatemala, January 17 – February 24, 2017 in DeKalb, Illinois.

Additional thanks:
Robin Deacon, Lisa Vinebaum, Josephine Burke

SAIC Fiber and Material Studies Department

SAIC Performance Department

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