Quien Puede Borrar Las Huellas

Artist: Regina José Galindo
Production year: 2003
Duration: 00:01:52
Catalogued as: PERFORMANCE, BODY/DANCE, SOCIAL/POLITICAL

"¿Quién puede borrar las huellas?" Who Can Remove the Traces by Regina José Galindo. A woman in a black dress walks barefoot through the streets of Guatemala carrying a gray basin filled with human blood. She wets her feet with it so she can leave a trail of bloody footprints behind her. Her destination is the Constitutional Court building to the National Palace. This piece is a powerful statement about the role of art in showing human-rights abuses and government atrocities. The footprints r ...

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