Teresa Margolles: At the Scene (MoMA)
Ana Janevski, Inés Katzenstein (Eds)
The Museum of Modern Art, 2026
€52,00
Teresa Margolles (b. 1963, Mexico) is a Mexican conceptual artist, photographer, videographer, and forensic-trained performance artist who explores the social causes, violence, and consequences of death.
For over twenty-five years, Teresa Margolles has investigated the social and aesthetic dimensions of conflict, creating sculptural installations, photographs, films, and performances imbued with material traces of death. The artist’s work most often incorporates physical remnants of violent crimes resulting from political corruption and social exclusion—blood-stained sheets, glass shards from shattered windshields, bullet-ridden walls, or used surgical threads—whose victims are otherwise rendered invisible. Tapping into the restrained sensibilities of conceptualism and minimalism, Margolles inserts post-mortem matter typically obscured from public consciousness into the architectures of civic and cultural institutions. Filling a white-cube gallery space with a dense fog of vaporized water previously used to wash corpses, for example, or mounting a flag onto the facade of the Venice Biennale’s Palazzo Rota-Ivancich splattered with blood from homicides near the Mexico-U.S. border, Margolles transgresses normative boundaries to command attention and invoke accountability.
ISBN: 9781633451902
