Performance Series: Regina José Galindo

November 12, 2025

6 to 8 pm ET

Americas Society

680 Park Avenue

New York City

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As part of our Performance Series, Art at Americas Society, in partnership with Performa 2025 Biennial, presents a debut performance by Guatemalan artist Regina José Galindo titled La Fuerza de la Izquierda (The Strength of Left). The performance will take place on Wednesday, November 12, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm ET, at Americas Society in New York. This event is in person, free, and open to the public.

Wednesday, November 12, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm ET
Americas Society 680 Park Ave. New York, NY
Registration is required.
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In La Fuerza de la Izquierda (The Strength of Left), a group of professional and non-professional performers attempt to hold Galindo’s body in the air, using only their left arms. These hands create a precarious system of support, making palpable the collective effort required to uplift vulnerable members of the community in times of political crisis.

Galindo plays on both the embodied and symbolic dimensions of “right” and “left,” exposing how the body's smallest gestures and exertions are inseparable from the political imaginaries they invoke. If we accept handedness as the embodied ground of her inquiry, then the political order—the global left/right divide—also structures how those bodies are read and disciplined.

Please note that this is a standing event. Doors open at 6:00 pm, the performance will begin promptly at 6:15 pm. RSVP is REQUIRED. Early arrival is suggested as space is limited, and entry is not guaranteed for late arrivals.

This is a Performa Project for the Performa 2025 Biennial. Co-presented with Americas Society and supported by Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) and La Nueva Fábrica, Guatemala.

</p><p>The program's recording it's available on this website and on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJcKiLrw675_Z77AzE_c1Dg">Art at Americas Society YouTube channel</a>.</p><h4>About the Artist</h4><p><strong>Regina José Galindo</strong> (1974) is a visual artist and poet, whose main medium is performance. Galindo lives and works in Guatemala, using its own context as a starting point to explore and assess the ethical implication of social violence and injustices related to gender and racial discrimination, as well as human right abuse arising from the endemic inequalities in power relations of contemporary societies. Galindo is, in Loris Romano words, “an artist who pushes herself beyond her own limits, through performances which are radical, unsettling and ethically discomfiting."</p><p>Galindo received the Golden Lion for Best Young Artist in the 51st Biennial of Venice (2005) for her work <em>Quién pureed borer las huellas?</em> and <em>Himenplastia</em>, two crucial pieces of her ouvre which critique Guatemalan violence that comes from misconceptions of morality as from gender violence, while she demands the restitution of the memory and humanity of the victims. In 2011, she was awarded with the Prince Claus Award from the Netherlands for her ability to transform injustice and outrage into powerful public acts that demand a response.</p><p>She has also participated in the 49th, 53rd and 54th Venice Biennials; Documenta 12 in Athens and Kassel; the 9th International; Biennial of Cuenca, the 29th Biennial of Graphic Arts of Ljubljana, the Shanghai Biennial (2016), the Biennial of Pontevedra in 2010, the 17th Biennial of Sydney, the 2nd Biennial of Moscow, the first triennial of Auckland, the Venice-Istanbul Exhibition, the 1st Biennial of Art and Architecture of Canarian Islands, the 4th Biennial of Valencia, the 3rd Biennial of Albania, the 2nd Biennial of Prague and the 3rd Biennial of Lima.</p><hr><h4>Performance Series</h4><p>This event is part of our <a href="https://www.as-coa.org/performance-series">Performance Series</a>. Check out recordings of past performances and read about the series.</p>

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