Regina josé galindo biografia

Guatemalan performance artist

Regina José Galindo (born August 27, 1974 Guatemala City)^[1][2] is a Guatemalan performance artist who specializes in performance art.

She is currently one of the main artists working in this media in Latino America, and is also a poet.

Regina josé galindo biografia

Her work is characterized by her explicit political and critical content, using her body as a tool for confrontation and social transformation. She received the Golden Lion as best young artists in the Venice Biennale in 2005 and the Prince Clause Prize in 2011.

Biography

Galindo was born in Guatemala City in 1974, where she lives and works. Her artistic career is framed by the Guatemalan civil war that occurred from 1960 and 1996. This conflict was marked by genocide with more than 200,000 victims, many of them indigenous, agricultural workers, women and girls.

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" I have only lived in Guatemala with a great violence problem, specially a limitless gender