Regina José Galindo: let's decolonise the world

Artishock - Semíramis González

The extensive work of Regina José Galindo (Guatemala City, 1974) has been examined in various exhibitions, which has allowed us to deepen her artistic practice over several decades. With a deeply committed body of work, in which corporeality and its viscerality are taken to the limit, Galindo has addressed concepts linked to violence, using performance as the ideal means to denounce it.

This sensibility runs through the exhibition Decolonising the World at the Centre d'Art La Panera in Lleida, which traces a conceptual journey through Galindo's work from a decolonial perspective, situated in a context marked by the experience of colonisation. With works spanning from the beginning of this century to a performance specifically commissioned for this show, the exhibition questions how the official narrative of the West—particularly from Europe and the United States—has been built on the foundations of the exploitation of so-called "countries of the Global South."

 

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September 30, 2024
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