Rossina Cazali

Rossina Cazali is an independent curator and writer based in Guatemala City. She studied arts at the Universidad of San Carlos in Guatemala and is the founder of art projects including La Curandería and Proyecto Laica in Guatemala. From 2003 to 2007, she was the director of the Spanish Cultural Center in Guatemala. She has served as a guest curator of different international biennials and several exhibitions in Latin America, the United States, and Spain. She has received a John Simon Guggenheim scholarship for research (2010); a Prince Claus Award for her career as a curator and writer (Amsterdam, 2014); and a research grant from the Fundación Júmex (Mexico City, 2017).

Contributions

The Americas | One Work, Many Voices

Empatía y complicidad en America’s Family Prison de Regina José Galindo

Desde finales de los noventa, la obra de Regina José Galindo se ha caracterizado por denunciar distintas formas de opresión y violencia en la sociedad contemporánea. Uno de los temas recurrentes en su trayectoria artística ha sido el de las movilizaciones migratorias y el desplazamiento de centroamericanos como resultado de las guerras civiles que tuvieron lugar en Guatemala y otros países de la región en la década de los setenta.

The Americas | One Work, Many Voices

Empathy and Complicity in Regina José Galindo’s America’s Family Prison

Since the late nineties, the work of Regina José Galindo has been characterized for denouncing different forms of oppression and violence in contemporary society. One recurring theme in her artistic career has been the migratory mobilizations and displacement of Central Americans as a result of the civil wars that took place in Guatemala and other countries of the region in the 1970s.