Teresa Margolles

Alternate Titles

• We have a common thread

Description

Violence and the dead are major thematics in the sociopolitical art of Teresa Margolles. Born in Culiacan, Mexico, Margolles unfalteringly exposes the social causes and consequences of the endemic violence that ravages her country: violent deaths from the drug trade, exclusions, feminicides, and social injustice. Many of her works consist of substances or objects that have been in close contact to violent crimes and dead bodies, such as water with which corpses have been cleaned, blood-soaked earth, or fabric drenched in body fluids. This monograph brings together works from the past decade, along with pieces that have never been shown before, including sculptural and photographic installations, performative interventions and videos. Spare, yet powerfully moving, Margolles's work reaches out and brings the viewer into the world of those whose lives have been made invisible.00Exhibition: Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montréal, Canada (16.02.-14.05.2017).

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Other Editions

• Teresa MargollesHardcoverHatje Cantz Publishers2004-08-02
• Teresa MargollesNeuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY Purchase2015
• Teresa MargollesHatje Cantz2004-01-01
• MundosMusée d'art contemporain de Montréal2017-01-01
• Teresa Margolles - muerte sin fin. Ausstellung, 24. April - 15. August 2004, Museum f ur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am MainHatje Cantz Verlag