Fri 13 Nov 2009
"Yesoterapia" The artist was encased in a body cast for five days
The Guatemalan artist Regina José Galindo is compared to Iowa’s Ana Mendieta or Serbian Marina Abramovic for the audacity of her body-based work and the attention it directs toward themes of women and politics.
Her first solo show in New York is up this month at the gallery Exit Art.
December 2nd, 2009 at 4:52 pm
I read this story about her here online. It says that she was encased in a body cast for 5 days. I was going to ask Is that part of her art? Or was she in a an accident? Well I already know that answer.
This was interesting to learn about even though there is not much to say about her. And Regina was compared to the Serbian Marina Abramovic which I thought was interesting because I’m serbian too.
I’ve never heard of her or her art. I wonder why she does this art and what polictical view she has on politics including wether is she a democrat or a republican?
Since this story got my attention, I would like to go see her first show in New York. But since the teacher posted this in November, it would occur to me that maybe I missed it because it was in November. I would still like to learn more about her and why she decided to do body art instead of painting or something else.