Regina José Galindo (born August 27, 1974 in Guatemala City, Guatemala) is a Guatemalan-born artist who specializes in performance art. She is currently one of the main artists working in this medium in Latin America, and is also a poet. She attended secretarial school but her career as a secretary was not a successful one. 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. 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, and also by a deeply ingrained social inequality resulting from colonialism pair with government instability. Her own body becomes the protagonist of her work, when she hangs herself from a bridge in Guatemala while reciting her poetry to denounce the atrocities inflicted on women under the abuse of political power.
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