
¿Quién puede borrar las huellas?
In this powerful durational performance, Regina José Galindo walks barefoot through the streets of Guatemala City, repeatedly dipping her feet in a basin of human blood and leaving crimson footprints along her path from the Constitutional Court to the National Palace. The act was performed in 2003 as a protest against the presidential candidacy of Efraín Ríos Montt, a former military dictator implicated in genocide during Guatemala's civil war. The haunting 37-minute and 33-second video document transforms the body into an instrument of collective memory, posing the work's central question — who can erase the traces? — as both a political challenge and a moral demand for accountability.
- Medium
- video length 37 minutes and 33 seconds
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Latin America
May 29, 2014
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