Opening: Janet Biggs and Regina José Galindo at Cristin Tierney Gallery
This two-woman show, titled “Endurance,” pairs two video installations that deal with repeated actions and extreme conditions. Janet Biggs will show Afar (2016), a three-channel work shot on location in the Afar Triangle, an area in Africa known for its earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. In the work, dancers throw themselves against steel barriers, in reference to the oppressive regimes of some African countries. Regina José Galindo’s work Tierra (2013) is similarly political. Featuring the artist herself standing nude in a field while a bulldozer digs a hole around her, the work lyrically alludes to violence inflicted on Guatemalans by the country’s former prime minister, José Efraín Ríos Montt.
This two-woman show, titled “Endurance,” pairs two video installations that deal with repeated actions and extreme conditions. Janet Biggs will show Afar (2016), a three-channel work shot on location in the Afar Triangle, an area in Africa known for its earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. In the work, dancers throw themselves against steel barriers, in reference to the oppressive regimes of some African countries. Regina José Galindo’s work Tierra (2013) is similarly political. Featuring the artist herself standing nude in a field while a bulldozer digs a hole around her, the work lyrically alludes to violence inflicted on Guatemalans by the country’s former prime minister, José Efraín Ríos Montt.
