La práctica artística de Regina José Galindo: anatomía de una metáfora emancipatoria

Through history, the relationship between poetry and the other fine arts has been an object of numerous studies based mainly on comparative criteria. Poetic language transcends the boundaries of literature, and becomes a key element to determine if a work is indeed a work of art. The form, perception and execution of the performance, which in its origins was linked to the representative act based on the text as an artistic form of expression, is in the Latin-American context transformed into a protest element in the social mobilisations related to the defence of human rights. The main exponent of performance art in Guatemala, Regina José Galindo (born in 1974), started her career in the field of poetry. Her performances establish formal and functional connections with poetic language, creating metaphors through the subject, object and action, that are used as a catalyst of the message to be transmitted and thus create another type of reception, one that goes beyond the everyday limits that circumscribe both disciplines. The performance metaphors of the artist, besides questioning the social position of women, enable the observer to reach, through identification, the emancipatory experience in its entirety