Yo solo traigo Flores

Prometeo Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the new exhibition season with the solo show Yo solo traigo Flores by Regina José Galindo, held in the monumental space of the Ex Chiesa di San Matteo in Lucca, starting from September 14, 2025. The exhibition marks a significant milestone as the gallery celebrates its twentieth anniversary.

In 2005, Prometeo Gallery, founded by Ida Pisani, opened its doors in Milan’s emerging art district of Via Ventura with the exhibition Perra, the first solo show in Italy by the then-emerging Guatemalan artist Regina José Galindo, fresh from receiving the Golden Lion for Best Young Artist at the 51st Venice Biennale. That inaugural exhibition, curated by Marco Scotini, immediately defined the gallery’s vision and set the tone for the years to come.

Now, twenty years later, the artist and curator reunite to present a new, site-specific performance in a historical moment marked by unprecedented global socio-political crises. Yo solo traigo Flores is a poetic and powerful reflection on resistance, memory, and the possibility of renewal - through a minimal yet deeply meaningful gesture: bringing flowers, a symbol of rebirth and resilience.

Alongside the new performance created for Lucca, the exhibition will feature a selection of significant works that trace the twenty-year collaboration between the artist and the gallery - including the iconic Perra (2005), the environmental and anti-extractivist protest Mazorca (2015), and the recent Fruta Amarga (2024). Together, these works confirm Galindo’s status as one of the most radical and necessary voices in international performance art, boldly confronting systemic violence and social injustice by using her body as a political and ethical medium.

Her body - not as a victim, but as an active, social, collective presence - lies at the heart of her work. Regina José Galindo’s performances expose the limits and power of the body, turning it into a battleground of resistance. In a time defined by violence, genocides, and new forms of global colonization, Galindo chooses not to add more suffering, but instead to restart from a small, symbolic, deeply human and natural gesture: to bring flowers. Following in the footsteps of Ana Mendieta, the artist entrusts nature with the task of enduring and regenerating, renewing the connection between art and life. “They can cut all the flowers, but they will never stop the spring" - the well-known verse attributed to Pablo Neruda - becomes the quiet motto of this new artistic action, one that asserts presence, hope, and promise.