Latin American Art at CAAM
The Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM) of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, is presenting through November 3, 2013, two exhibitions by Latin American artists.
The first one is Piel de gallina, by Guatemalan native Regina José Galindo. This exhibition, arranged in the Centro's floors 0 and 1galleries, is the artist's first retrospective in Spain and Europe.
The show includes videos, photographs, and objects that are a reflection of Galindo's performances since 1999. In her disturbing and emotional performances, Galindo subjects her own body to extreme situations as a commentary on a social reality dominated by abuse and injustice.
Blanca de la Torre, the show's curator, notes that Galindo's performances "function as potent agit-prop devices, and their impact cannot be denied. But at the same time, they act as personal rituals, as small tributes to a collective victimized by the social reality of abuse and injustice. As Regina puts it, she uses her body as a reflection of other bodies".
For its part, C.A.D.A día es +: Juan Castillo/Lotty Rosenfeld, in the Centro's 2nd and 3rd floor galleries, is an exhibition project posited as a dual museographic veneer, divided between a retrospective devoted to Chile's Colectivo de Acciones de Arte, C.A.D.A, and the most recent production of two of the group's founding members, Juan Castillo and Lotty Rosenfeld.
Curator Francis Naranjo's project brings to viewers the work of the C.A.D.A group under Pinochet's military dictatorship through photographs, installations, and video creations, as well as recent works by two of the group's five members. In the current context of global crisis, the exhibition proposal is an attempt to contribute to a reflection about political models and a redefinition of the true meaning of concepts such as peace and democracy.
