Confesión

Like most of Galindo’s work, this project is inspired real fire events drawn from contemporary history, which the artist interiorises and ultimately re-lives through metaphor, using performance as a framework to stage the moment. In Confesión, the artist subjects herself to one of several torture methods used by the CIA in the context of the War on Terror. A verdugo (torturer) carries out one of several waterboarding methods, following instructions published in CIA manuals which have been recently declassified. Galindo endures seven seconds of immersion, seven times. Towards the end of the piece, something “clicks”. The person recruited to act as torturer, with precise instructions to be followed cold-bloodedly, crosses an invisible line, identifies with his allocated role, and takes the exercise a step further.