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Regina José Galindo — ¿Quién puede borrar las huellas?
Regina José Galindo

¿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.

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video length 37 minutes and 33 seconds

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Latin America

May 29, 2014

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Regina José Galindo, ¿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
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Related themes

Monochrome, Documentary, Guatemalan, Social Commentary, Activist, Performance, Provocative, Video Art, Human Rights, Contemporary