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"Tres Acciones" was the second exhibition in Milan by Guatemalan artist Regina Jose Galindo, who won the Golden Lion award for artists under thirty-five at the 2005 Venice Biennale. Here she showed a three-channel video along with a related sculptural installation and thirty-one photographs. The video triptych XX, 2007, shows the burial, in unmarked graves, of unclaimed bodies of men, women, and children: corpses placed in large black plastic bags (children in little transparent sacks), indifferent gravediggers shoveling the earth. A mason places a small white marble gravestone to mark each spot, carved with the words GUATEMALA 1007 and a double x, indicating that the name of the deceased is unknown. The same sort of small gravestones were arrayed on...
