Teresa Margolles
Subtitle: mundos
By: [texts], John Zeppetelli, Jean-Philippe Uzel, Thérèse St-Gelais, Lourdes Morales ; [co-commissioner], Emeren Garcia
Contributors: Uzel, Jean-Philippe, author; García, Emeren; Zeppetelli, John, author; St-Gelais, Thérèse, author; Morales, Lourdes, author; Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
Publisher: Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Montréal
Language: fre; eng
Number of pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9782551258307
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Exhibitions; Death in art; Violence in art; Mexican Art; Expositions; Mort dans l'art; Violence dans l'art; Art mexicain! 21e siècle
Other titles: Mundos
Work titles: Works
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).
Notes: Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, February 16-May 14, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references.

Primarily in French, with parallel English text.