Regina José Galindo
S.O.S., 2018
Single channel audio loop
19 min 01 sec
Edition 1/5 + 2 A.P.
» In Italy a woman is murdered every seventy-two hours. As in many other countries in the world, the monster of feminicide is present and generates a terrible drama in the reality of the country.
For twelve hours I remain invisible, hidden behind a false wall from which I play the Morse key to ask for help. An emergency call upon the alarming figures of violence suffered by women in Italy. »
– Regina José Galindo
Prometeo Gallery
Milan, Italy, 2018
Regina José Galindo
Culpable (Guilty), 2015
Single channel audio loop
50 min 34 sec
Edition 1/5 + 2 A.P.
The trial against Ríos Montt took place in 2013 and he was sentenced for genocide to 80 years. His sentence was short-lived as a few days after the verdict, the conviction was overturned.
Culpable (Guilty) is a sound sculpture, presented in the public space on Sunday, May 10, 2015, two years after the conviction. Culpable is an acknowledgement to the people who brought Ríos Montt to trial and is an affirmation of his guilt, of his conviction, it is an affirmation of the truth.
Composition by Vinicio Salazar Performance / Choral ensable
Guatemala City, 2015
Regina José Galindo
Las escucharon gritar y no abrieron la puerta (They Heard Them Screaming and Did Not Open the Door) , 2017
Single channel audio loop
9 min 56 sec
Edition 1/5 + 2 A.P.
sound document
“Sound performance in which 41 women locked ourselves in a small room and screamed for nine minutes in memory of the 41 girls murdered in the Virgen de la Asunción Shelter.
On March 8, 2017, 56 girls who were in the care of the State were locked in a small room as punishment for having tried to escape. After hours of confinement, a fire started inside the room and the authorities did not open
the door. The girls screamed for nine minutes as they burned alive and the authorities would not let them out.”
– Regina José Galindo
Casa de la Memoria
Guatemala City, 2017
Regina José Galindo (Guatemala, 1974) lives and works in Guatemala. His artistic practice places his own body in a public dimension, appealing to anyone who has experienced or witnessed political or personal violence. Since she was invited by Harald Szeemann to the 49th Venice Biennale with the work El dolor en un pañuelo where she also performed Piel, Regina José Galindo has presented her work in several international exhibitions. She was awarded the Golden Lion for best artist under 35 for Himenoplastia at the 51st Venice Biennale. Galindo participated in documenta14 in Athens and Kassel, and also in the Istanbul, Prague and Tirane biennials, as well as in exhibitions in PAC Milan, Tate Modern, London, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and PS1 Museum, New York. Her work is in the collections of MoMa (NY), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (NY), Castello di Rivoli (Turin), and the Tate Collection, amongst others.