Guillermo Galindo: Piercing Kisses: Zona Maco 2024

Drawing from his personal experiences as an auto-exiled individual with complex origins in a conservative family in Mexico City, Guillermo Galindo explores the concept of being a true immigrant in every sense. His recent creations delve into gender fluidity, challenging binary divisions and toxic masculinity while embracing ecological and anti-speciesist tendencies.

Among Guillermo Galindo's most prominent projects is the traveling exhibition "Border Cantos," a collaboration with photographer Richard Misrach, which has been featured in over 20 museums. This includes his participation in Documenta14 (Kassel & Athens) with the piece "Echo Exodus," where immigration is a central theme. At the Getty Pacific Standard Time exhibition in Los Angeles, his work "Sonic Botany'' responded to the main exhibit "Visual Voyages…" It critiqued the graphic codification of the "new world" from the perspective of European colonizers, questioning representations imposed by religion, race, and commercialization, delving into the reconfiguration of ancestral nomenclature.

In "Piercing Kisses," Guillermo Galindo presents a collection of works featuring human limbs and recognizable plant textures, ambiguous creatures, and hybrid amphibians, symbolizing gender diversity. Pearls are used metaphorically to represent sexuality and fertility. This body of work is a journey into the unconscious and archetypical symbols, emphasizing Galindo's recurring theme of reimagining the male-female binary in our dark times. Drawing inspiration from C.G. Jung's concepts, Galindo explores the notions of anima and animus in his art.

Guillermo Galindo's work envision a post-human planet and a utopia without humans, highlighting his commitment to neo-humanism. S/He believes in the artist's role in the 21st century to imagine and propose alternative ways of perceiving and understanding the world. His art redefines social justice, the rights of living beings, and spirituality, challenging societal impositions and norms.