Exit Art Presents: Regina José Galindo

Regina José Galindo the second exhibition in Exit Arts SOLO series and the first in the Performance in Crisis program is a ten-year survey of performance and installation work by the Guatemalan artist Regina José Galindo. Recalling the political and poetic gestures of Ana Mendieta, the endurance feats of Tehching Hsieh, and the extreme actions of Chris Burden, Regina José Galindo creates powerful visual metaphors by establishing her body as a site of conflict. Indeed her compelling and sometimes disturbing body of work shows Galindo chained, trapped, drowned, brutalized, and anguished. Her body becomes a specimen, a potent representation of brutality and agitation.

Through November 21, 2009.
EXIT ART / 475 Tenth Avenue at 36th Street / NYC / 10018 / 212-966-7745 / www.exitart.org

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• guatemala
• performance art
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