On Friday 4 November 2022 , in the setting of Artissima, the PAV is pleased to inaugurate Tierra , a solo exhibition by the artist Regina José Galindo , a Guatemalan artist who has been investigating the theme of social justice for more than twenty years through performative practices whose expressive center of gravity is it situates in the relationship between the body and the environment. The exhibition, curated by Marco Scotini , follows those dedicated to the Indian artist Navjot Altaf and the Indonesian artist Arahmaiani in investigating the specific relationships that exist between environmental exploitation and oppressed subjects, women and minorities, decentralizing the look beyond the geographical and cultural borders of the so-called West.

The exhibition curated by Marco Scotini will retrace the twenty-year career of Galindo (winner of the Golden Lion at the 51st Venice Biennale as best young artist) focusing on the ways in which his every contact with natural elements should be read in an intersectional and militant key. . And among all the natural elements, the earth that gives the exhibition its title has its own particular status: Galindo's approach escapes any essentialist declination of the relationship between earth and the female body, anticipating and nevertheless influencing the most recent research trends. artistic ecofeminist. The path will exhibit the results of an approach that has evolved over the years, from the initial focus on Guatemalan political-social issues, to the (site-specific) attention to the contexts and communities with which the artist finds himself interacting.

Finally, on the occasion of the opening, an unprecedented performance based on fossil matter connects the exhibition path to the current humanitarian and energy crisis. Originally from Guatemala City (1974), Regina José Galindo uses the body as a privileged instrument of an intense artistic practice, inaugurated in the late nineties; far from the formal research conducted in traditional art schools, Galindo immediately uses art as a mode of communication and political action: born and raised during the long Guatemalan military dictatorship, she witnessed from an early age a civil war characterized by ferocious repressive practices, up to ethnic cleansing of indigenous peoples.