La Tierra

"La Tierra" (2013) explores the connection between the exploitation of human lives and natural resources. In it, the artist stands naked and motionless in a field while an excavator digs an enormous ditch around her, leaving only the small patch of land on which she stands. Her performance reinterprets a massacre of Indigenous people during the civil war that became public in 2012, during the trial of the former dictator Efraín Rios Montt. “War, violence, resources—it was all connected,” Galindo has said. “A performance is not enough to express empathy, or rage, before a tragedy of that magnitude. But we do what we can.”