Regina José Galindo Guatemala, b. 1974
Nuestra mayor venganza es estar vivas, 2021
Video HD.
6’ 57’’
Edition of 5 + 3AP
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The performance Nuestra mayor venganza es estar vivas (Our Greatest Revenge is to Be Alive) follows the scheme of “appearances” by Galindo. Carried out in the town of Artà (Mallorca)...
The performance Nuestra mayor venganza es estar vivas (Our Greatest Revenge is to Be Alive) follows the scheme of “appearances” by Galindo. Carried out in the town of Artà (Mallorca) by 37 women from a group of Ball de bot, a Majorcan regional dance. The number of participants coincided with the number of women murdered by gender violence in the Balearic Islands since this dismal official count exists. The performers made their castanets sound under the enormous fabrics that covered and restricted them, drowning their clatter as a metaphor for those social structures that try to hide terrible situations. On this occasion, they could not prevent the accumulated percussion of all of them from becoming a powerful and audible scream of rage.