Glass Ceiling: Regina José Galindo

In her work the artist explores the violence exerted by power structures around the world. These relationships are articulated around extraction, whether of natural resources or human labor, thus creating contemporary forms of slavery. To explore this, Galindo uses one of the most common and effective resources in her discourse: the use of her own body as the protagonist of the action. A political and social body that combats classic, stereotypical, deliberately reductive, and conditioning representations of women.

In this way, Regina transforms her projects into spaces where the body itself and its performance appear as an effective aesthetic-political strategy. This is evident in the examples featured in the present exhibition, which range from the beginnings of her production to a performance specifically commissioned for this occasion. Glass Ceiling questions the notion of work associated with female labor inequality and is explored by the artist in her work of the same name (2025). An installation performance that highlights both the limitations women face in a global workplace that often discriminates against them, as well as the discrimination suffered by women who do not conform to privileged standards.