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Regina Jose Galindo was born in 1974 in Guatemala. She currently lives and works in Guatemala. Regina practices her art works with her own body. Her works are based on violence or any cruelty caused by certain political events and personal disgrace. Those works are open to the public and to whoever relates to what is being depicted in the art work. (Regina Jose Galindo Portfolio, 2014). Galindo won the Golden Lion award in 2005 as the best artist under 35 at the 51st. Venice Biennale. Two years later, she sold this award to a Spanish artist, Santiago Sierra, who in return sold back to a collector. Ironically, in 2011 she decided to order an exact copy of the award to her friends, Angel and Fernando Poyón who were sculptors in Guatemala. Her friends gave her the exact copy, but this time the Golden Lion was casted in bronze coated in Guatemalan gold. Regina’s work is also present in private and public collections, such as the Pompidou, Guggenheim, Rivoli Museum in Torino, or the Miami Art Museum and Cisneros Fontanals Collection in Miami …show more content…

Her body was motionless with no clothes on, and she was in a extremely cold room. Some pieces of clothes were on the ground at her feet. Different people entered the room, and it was up to them to put the clothes on her, or leave her in the cold. I found this a very interesting practice, because with this experiment you can see the level of humanity in people. She let people decide whether to do something for her when she was freezing to death, or to continue and leave her there. Another interesting work was the one called “Bitch” (Perra). In this work, she wrote the word BITCH with a knife on her right thigh. This work is to reflect the torture and murder affecting hundreds of Guatemalan women every year. Many of them were found disfigured with words like “bitch” carved into their bodies (Micchelli,

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