Regina José Galindo and Iva Lulashi

The female figure predominates in the works of Guatemalan visual and performance artist Regina José Galindo and Albanian artist Iva Lulashi.

- Wilson Tarbox

Alberta Pane Gallery, Paris, France

For Galindo, the body depicted is often her own, whereas Lulashi uses paint and canvas to render ambiguous, prurient scenes. ‘Mujer, Mujer, Mujer’ (Woman, Woman, Woman), on view at Alberta Pane Gallery, opposes the artists in a ‘double solo show’ split between the gallery’s two store-front spaces on rue de Montmorency: several works by Galindo are in the main gallery, while Lulashi’s paintings are displayed across the road in the second, slightly narrower space.

Galindo’s videos and photographs document performances in which she positioned herself in scenes of staged precarity and abuse as a way of representing violence against women in her native country. The works on display range from somewhat absurd images –  La Sombra (The Shadow, 2017), in which the subject runs towards the camera as a tank rolls behind her – to the less graphic but more disturbing video performance La Verdad (The Truth, 2013). In this piece, Galindo reads aloud first-hand accounts of rape and genocide during the 36-year Guatemalan Civil War.